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Rega Apollo - DAC / Player to beat it

One of these days, my Rega Apollo is either going to die or ill just decide I want something better. But by better, I mean significantly better. Using an analogy, not like looking for more power and going from 50 watts to 65 watts. More like 50 watts to 200 watts. I know, bad analogy. Basically sonic improvement that is obvious.

So, what price level, models, brands would I have to be looking at?
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I feel that way about my 6 year old Rega Apollo, a $1000 product (paid $1000). I also feel that way about my 9 year old Musical Fidelity CD PRE 24, a preamp/ cd player that was a $3000 product (paid $1400 when discontinued). Both really sweet CD players. I acquired a couple of back-up CD players in the last year (XTZ CD 100 and Emotiva ERC-2, $600 and $350 respectively), but they are not sonic improvements ... just a couple of well built players that perform above their relatively inexpensive prices.

When the time comes to seriously upgrade the CD player, off the top of my head I would be looking at Ayre, Esoteric, top of the line Rega. I figure I would be looking in the $3-5k range.

Rich
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