The best CD Player for the money

Hi Ghosthouse,
The ICs I'm using are the Darwin Silver ICs (not the Ascensions). They really opened up the sound, so to speak, laying bare most everything. If it's coloration, shading or a tone control of sorts, these will not do. They are (in my system) very coherent.

All the best,
Nonoise

Hi, I already said the vincent will take atleast 500 hours to break-in, and the sound to fully intergrate and the bass slam to come thru, cheers.

if the quote was found in the Redbook section , than my statement applied to a collection of digital hardware that I had auditioned prior to the review. it was not meant specifically as a comparison between specific cd players, but rather a collective memory of the music sounding "better" on the reviewed component than it did on other digital products I had auditioned to date.

@ Nonoise, Hi, some how I missed your post about the chassis build quality of the vincent, you are correct, the vincent does have thinner metal and will perform better with tunning, I like that!, being able to change your sound with out electricity is always cool to me!, I have owned digital with built like a tank chassis that sounded bad, no matter what i did, tunning was not available on a chassis like that, it did not work!, the last time I had exsperience with marantz, I did not see any one eighth to quarter inch thickness to the chassis, It is my conclusion, that resonance tunning will work to good effect on any marantz digital player, new or old,, cheers.

I'm currently using a ModWright Sony 5400ES with upgraded tubes. I tried many CDP's and I like this one the best. It beat out my Esoteric unit. I have not tried ModWright's Oppo BDP-105 with digital inputs and newer power supply. That will probably be my replacement in the near future cause I'm eventually going to need a DAC. I want to create a music server.