Anybody heard a LECTOR CDP-7t ?

After doing some listening over the last two days I would have to say that the review in The Absolute Sound is consistent with what I have heard from this player. It is smooth, refined, and detailed with excellent bass. The player gets strings and horns right and the soundstage is very three dimensional. It is the best CD player I have owned to date. To my surprise, it is better than my current setup (a Camelot Round Table mk III and a modified Kora Hermes DAC). At the current price I do not think you can go wrong with the Lector. Is it as good as the mega dollar players currently out there? I can not answer that but my guess is that anything significantly better than the Lector is going to cost a lot more than $3300.

Did anybody compare it with Wadia 861 ?

I heard the lector 5 at the HE in NYC. Very open sounding and three dimensional. Bass however sounded quite tubby and full. Highs and mids are incredibly detailed for cd playback. Very unusual to hear extended highs out of cd.

I have hear CDT-7 with some I believe Alon speaker. It sounded very muddy and dark, but it could be speakers fault.

Hey Y'all,

Hey Y'all,

It was definitely the speakers. Whether it was the placement or the speakers themselves is debatable. I thought, for the size of the speakers, they were set up much too close to the back wall. I understand that every exhibiter at the show had to make do with what they had as far as room, but these speakers probably would have sounded much better if they could have been set up about four to six feet out from the back wall. I have my monitor speakers about seven feet from my back wall. I've heard the Lector in three systems, including my own, and I've never experienced that muddy, dark sound mentioned above.........John