Time For a CD Player Upgrade

I just read some comments on the Michi Q5 on a short YouTube video of it and a Michi fan/owner said it uses the same $25 CD drive mechanism as Pro-Ject and that Marantz and Jays sound better. How he knows that is beyond me unless he's already auditioned it, which is highly unlikely. He even went on to say he'll probably get it anyway. 

Must be nice to have that much disposable income. 

All the best,
Nonoise

@sokogear +1

I wasn't prepared for the changes in sound I got from my IsoAcoustics Oreas under my CDP. I was advised by Music Direct and IsoAcoustics to try them under the base plate and not the footers and move them about to settle on the changes I liked.

That exercise drove me mad, with just a 1/4" move changing the sound dramatically. I tried all manner of positions and would get fantastic highs but smothered mids, magically wonderful mids with curtailed highs, tighter base at the expense of everything else. 

What I settled on was placing them directly under the footers and voila!, pretty much perfect in all aspects. The thing is, no matter where I placed the Oreas, the better results came from one directly under the CD drive mechanism, when using the base plate in place of the footers. That told me just how much vibration is in a CDP or CDT.

All the best,
Nonoise

Well, there's a new kid on the block and it's from Rotel's upper echelon line, Michi. It's the Michi Q5 CDP, CDT & DAC.( I don't know why they call it all that as CDP covers it all)

And, as you can see, it's a top loader! All that for US $6999. I don't think it uses the Streamline CD-Pro 8 drive and is an in house design. I think the darn thing weighs 51 lbs.

All the best,
Nonoise