What's the best CD and/or multiplayer today

Ditto for Dodson 218, with modded CEC TL-1x (Superclock 3, power supply, etc.) is as good as I have heard. Throw away your turntables! (Kidding.)

Neal

I'd love to compare my Cayin 17 to the Audio aero Prima. Not the DAC, the Prima cdp.
At half the price, I'd bet the Cayin comes out the winner, or at least even.

BartokFan, if you are a real fan of old Bela, you should try the 1st piano concerto performed by Andras Schiff on the X-01. 'Tis simply awesome!

I too am a Bartok fan and love the Schiff recording. Of course I'm Hungarian and spent quite a bit of time in my childhood playing the elementary Bartok piano pieces (mikrokozmosz?)

That's the one: Mikrokosmos, in 7 volumes, published by Boosey & Hawkes! Old Bela wrote another excellent two-volume collection for young students, simply called. . . For Children. Really wild stuff! But going back to the Schiff recording of the 3 piano concertos, I have not heard any players that can render the earthy nature of the first concerto and the delicacy of the 3rd with the same solid realism of the X-01.