Advantages of a tube CD player over an SS player?

Zd542,, Thank you again for you advice. It always has been helpful. I have considered the Cary CD players. I believe the series are: CD300-200; CD-300-300. I have also e-mailed them about these players, but all have been discontinued. I have read all the reviews on the above two models, and the feature of changing sampling rate seem a bit hokey to me. Though, "some" claim it did make a difference in the sound especially with a variety of CD formats. The upsampling selection can also be made from the remote. However, I will check them out again, but to be honest, I think I am sold on Ayre CX-7emp, but almost none have come up for sale in the last three months. Thanks again, Jim

Get the Ayre player or a real tube player, I also owned a cary upsampling cd player before, the cd 500 solid state player, was the worse sounding player to date that I have owned!, hope this helps, cheers.

Another thing about Ayon digital you NEED to know is when you engage play, you will hear this annoying sonar ping sound that comes over your speakers, this is the capacitors engageing, very weird, and if you have the volume up loud when you do this, take a good guess, you will blow your tweeters!