Anyone have their Audio Aero Capitole MKII yet?

Anybody knows about the Lindeman D 680?
There was a rave review over at AA
about the player:

http://www.audioasylum.com/forums/hirez/messages/70261.html

and I wonder if anybody had a chance to comapre both players? The Lindemann has become the reference player of the German Stereo magazine and it plays SACDs also, which makes it really interesting for me.
My German audio dealer friend told me, he had a chance to listen to both and prefered the Lindemann. It is not because he is biased to make a quick sale, he does not carry either of the brands and would have to order both, so he could care less which brand a customer wants to buy.
BTW, the Lindeman seems to be machined out of piece of solid aluminium, so no "Mickey Mouse" drawer here, as one guy writes. This might not be important for the sound, but I always like well-built components.

More impressions :

definitely a special player.....there is that odd wow effect with the MKII..in fact Im saying it more often!!

Unfortunatly I NNED to go via a ML380S Pre due to my integration of a HT setup....however, I made a big mistake.. I listened to it without the Levinson 380S .. DOH !!!

There is a difference.. I think I found the sweet spot when hooked up to the 380S...but its still not the same when direct connect to the amps.

Difference..without the 380S
noise floor is better
Soundstage is better ...much
better image
bass is better
less pinpoint focus .. Levinson is very pinpoint in imaging

Not that the 380S corrupts the MKII but it does diminish the ambience and "fee" of the music.. I have yet to hear any issue with the full volume of the MKII (+5v) going into my ML380S. what am I supposed to hear.. distortion? clipping ?? I hear clean sound so far ..

Overall, amazing bass and woody sound..

I put on a live recording and there is like a mini 1-2ms audio drop cut over between tracks ???? .. this is not normal.. its an audio drop.. again only between track and usualy not a problem except during a live recording ...hummm...

all the best
Matt

my setup is at http://members.rogers.com/mzn50/

My AA Mk II just died on me :(

It started by the tray not knowing when the door was opened or not, meaning i couldnt read the TOC of new CDs, which meant i was basically *%!# ! I then fiddled with the tray and managed to solve this. Don't know why but it worked for 30mins, and then the electectronics went berserk. It now cycles between Init CD, No disc, Init CD, Reading and stopping, then starting up again with the Init etc... indefinitely. Ive restarted the machine several times, but it is definitely warped.

So its going back to the dealer tomorrow. Hope he can give me a new one, or fix this quickly, cause listening to my marantz today just wasnt quite the same thing :\

I am loosing patience and confidence in this player, who helped them design it Lucas(aka the prince of darkness)?? If I ever get mine and it starts acting weird like some of yours I am going to go postal. ~Tim

Just talked to the manufacturer. Apparently there has been a rather important software update to the reading of the TOC and the transport / DAC interface in general. You can tell which version you have when the player reads the CD : if it says "Reading CD TOC", then you have the earlier version. The latest version just says "Reading CD". So if you are experiencing the problem i have had (which is a known problem) or some other glitches, then just bring the unit to your dealer and he will do the software update.

Cheers