What's the best CD and/or multiplayer today

It's silly to say their is one best piece at any price bracket because of personnal taste, along with many fine products are on the market at the same time. If your talking about spending $15000.00 on a redbook cd front end I would recommand you audtion the Swiss made Ensemble DAC and Transport, because I did and found it to be better than many highly regarded CDPs and DACS/transports in my system.

If you don't have many multi-format discs then just stick with the Spectral for system synergy. If multi-format then I second the Linn Unidisk 1.1. Highly musical!

Good Luck!*>)

Audio Aero Capitole is about 8K (I love my Prima) but the Reimyo is getting all the best press but its 15K.

umm . . . the Meitner/emmLabs combos are the best i've heard. and i find it somewhat humorous that people are listing APL's NWO-1 as a best ever even though nobody's heard it yet.

not to say it won't be good, but come on, people - at leat hear the damn thing first.

i find it somewhat humorous that people are listing APL's NWO-1 as a best ever even though nobody's heard it yet.

Understandable, Lazarus28. I have heard the Meitner/EMM Labs combo in the same system as the APL Denon 3910 (version prior to the latest), and the APL held it's own. It's reasonable to project good things for the NWO-1 based on what I've personally heard.

But, you're comment is true. Any recommendations made should be based on hearing the units.