How much? for a yet nuther unit using old chip ckts...with it's RAZOR SHARP machining!!! Homie don't want no cuts from poorly finished products....how many THOUSANDS and teh edges are razor sharp, that comes from cheap stamped processes to make stuff, cheap stuff. Godo maching well finished has smooth finished edges, i bet this is just another grossly overpriced stamped consumer product hyped into the stratosphere. A friggin top loader, come on the world's first Philips unit i got was a top loader, I shoulda' kept it from over 20 years ago and sold it as aCLASSIC on E-Bay, now overpriced players revert back to the very user unfriendly top loading method, just a way to add useless features to a very overpriced product. Yeah, and that's without hearing it, I thought EMMLABS has teh best there is, and it's only $10K and it plays SACD/CD and does that artificly UPSAMPLING to 2X DSD rates, that means it has modern chips, and ckts, not something from teh 90's. Ever wonder why chips are stopped being made, or certain transistors like teh original Hitachi MOSFETS used in Hafler, whcih are no longer made (Hafler being teh FIRST to use MOSFETS in audio amps) now are replaced with BETTER, FASTER, CHEAPER Exicon. Chips are obsolete, now the new markeing scam is to use old designs and claim they really where better...BS. Even teh great Haflers are updated to 21st century SS devices and make them better than ever...and you know who does that. Naim, $28K Cd only player, top loading one disc player!!! What a deal....Come on And it don't even give you digital output....Oh, Their's don't need that, like any other player does.And once again, in the effort to push wire sales, the Tara vacuum, not really vacuum Zero, is what made all teh difference, how come Naim doesn't ship the CD player with that magic wire if it made such a difference, teh mfg doesn't know about teh magic of this wire? Ony a mag reviewer? Maybe not using a Shunyatatatatatatata AC cord could have made teh ZERO not needed or the use of a ZERO with a Shynyatatatatatam, switched to a JPS AC, back to a Non snake cable, with a Audiodharma Cable Cooker (set too hot maybe?) Oh no MF used the Oyaide AC wall jack what da' heck is dat? Why would he need a Shunyata RESEARCH? V-Ray Reference? Reference to what? What the heck is all this stuff anyway And 4 different LP cleaning machines? I thought this was a Cd player? And what, no Furutech DEMAGNETIZATION, then this review is bogus, is there no sanity, no DEMAG no peace
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