The Cambridge 840C, which is, at this moment, sited underneath the Rega on the Finite Elemente Spider rack. I don't know what equipment others have, but to hear this on a well set up system -- not neccesarily a super high-cost system, just a very good one, and not like it? You simply must not know what live music sounds like. This baby is, as Robert Harley said, a killer bargain. However, he must have gotten one already broken in, because if you listen to it in fewer than 100 hours, you simply won't "get it." Mine is just now hitting a week, and there is low level detail, now that the noise floor is dropping to "below sea-level" levels (somewhat akin to New Orleans, as a comparison), to now hear the orchestra shifting in their seats at times, that wasn't even there last night. And the thing that is the most outstanding is the timbre of instruments: I know the sound of a flute intimately, and this sounds very, very, very close to a flute in timbre. And so do most of the other orchestral instruments. (Haven't tried rock yet: I'm too dazed: I keep hitting "repeat" on Lt. Kije)
One wonders what the super-mega priced players sound like, but to get THIS level of music and sonics at this price??It is like giving someone an Audi for the price of a Ford.
One wonders what the super-mega priced players sound like, but to get THIS level of music and sonics at this price??It is like giving someone an Audi for the price of a Ford.