I just read a review of the new Cyrus CD6SE on What HiFi? online, and it really got me thinking about why Source 1st advocates have such a hard time convincing the rest of us....

http://whathifi.com/News/The-most-st...-this-century/

What HiFi? is praising the new Cyrus CD player as the most startling bit of kit this century... They regard this 800GBP ($1,600) CD player as being as good as ANY CD player out there... they compared it to their ultra-expensive referenece NAIM Transport / DAC combo and felt the Cyrus held its own...

I've seen similiar praise for the Cambridge Audio 840C ($1.5K) in The Absolute Sound, The Marantz SA8001 ($900) in Stereophile and the Benchmark DAC 1 ($1K) all over the damn place...

Not to mention the Rega Apollo or Musical Fidelity X-DAC V8...

With so much heaping praise being tossed around on sub $2k and even sub $1K CD Players/DACs, it does make it hard to believe that someone should spend large amounts of money on one...

All this praise leaves me wondering whether:

A) reviewers are way way way too enthusiastic about CD players they like

OR

B) there really isn't that much difference between CD players anymore...