IMHO, if you are looking for your LAST cd player, I would look at the Esoteric. There is an Esoteric UX-3 for sale here at around 1500.00. That piece cost 8500.00 when new. It uses one of the best transports in the world, the VRD NEO and also uses the Burr Brown pcm1704 R to R Ladder dac. I own one of these machines and am actually thinking of purchasing the one here for a spare. At 60 pounds, it is built better than a battleship.
Hegel Mohican vs. Bryston BCD-3
If anyone were looking for a single-box CD-player that qualified as a get-off-the-roundabout component, it seems to me that these two models would be high on their shortlist. So my question is:
Has anybody been able to hear these two models side by side?