I have used the Rega Apollo in my second, and most used system, since its introduction 11 years ago. It has been a very durable player and the only repair was to replace the laser last year. The sound is very musical, a touch on the warm side, and detailed enough, but not annoyingly so.
It has an interesting feature where 'each time the user loads a new disc, the Apollo reads the whole of the CD's subcode data into memory, analyzes it and then selects the most appropriate of four levels of error correction. That way, the music is never overcorrected per se, and the integrity of the original datastream is kept intact to the greatest extent possible' (Stereophile Review).
Rich
