I've had my 303 about 2 months...it replaced an Arcam Alpha 9 in my system. Detailed without fatigue, lovely mids, and in my system, very good bass. I play mainly classical, a bit of jazz, R&B & folk, but also rock...Beatles, Gabriel, Steely Dan, Stones, Talking Heads, REM, Who, Clash, Paula Cole..I dunno - is this stuff lite rock??? Some classical/jazz recordings are freaky realistic for player this price. Very natural timbres and big soundstage (width & depth) plus it handles complex musical passages in large scale classical very well. Built like a tank. My system: Alon V MkII speakers, Rogue 66 Preamp, Meitner MTR101 MkII monoblocks, SPM ICs, Coincident tri-wire speaker cable. Got interested in the Cary due to a friend's raving about it. Very happy so far. Upscale Audio was running a special on this player recently.
