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Anybody heard a LECTOR CDP-7t ?

This is the Italian tubed CD only player that Harry Pearson raved about in the most recent issue of The Absolute Sound.

I could almost buy one based on The Absolute Sound description alone, but I guess I better do a little more research and there is not a lot of info out there.

One internet retailer says the player was a big hit at CES 2004. Anybody know if the player lives up to TAS review and the hype?
tedvan
sorlowski
231 posts
 
Did anybody compare it with Wadia 861 ?
reb1208
518 posts
 
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.
sorlowski
231 posts
 
I have hear CDT-7 with some I believe Alon speaker. It sounded very muddy and dark, but it could be speakers fault.
jrwr7
211 posts
 
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
sorlowski
231 posts
 
>I've never experienced that muddy, dark sound mentioned above

this is what I wanted to hear :) because I'm seriously considering it among used Wadia as successor to my SACD mistake.
Anybody compared it to Wadia 861 ?
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