Heard the Abbingdon Music research CD player?

I also believe that the entire chasse is suppose to act a heat sink so it will get hot but that is by design. I asked the same question at the show in New York. The heat sinks are basically the chasse or something like that but it shouldn't get that hot like you describe

I received mine a few days ago.
Outperformed my Esoteric UX3SE in every area just out of the box... i setup a HTPC with ffdshow for the DVD playback using the USB link to the CD77... now i got a better picture and a clearly better sound.
It's more detailled than the Esoteric but at the same time more natural, fuller, the voices especially.
Analog sound with digital accuracy.

Ndeslions, now that's hard to believe. But only because the UX3SE is such a phenomenal unit.

I heard the ARM setup at CES and thought in some ways the system was among the very best at the show and in other ways the very best.

But it also was impossible to distinquish the cdp's performance from the rest of the system at CES. And they had some great sounding prototype all-aluminum speakers.

I'd be interested to hear more after the unit has burned in after 50 - 300 hours.

-IMO

>>Ndeslions, now that's hard to believe<<

No it's not. I have both players here and he's right.

Disclaimer: retailer for both product lines.

I have been using PS Audio's Power Plant Premier for about a week now and have noticed that even after extended listening sessions, the AMR heats up considerably less than before. Interestingly, the Premier's display shows that the incoming voltage is almost always in the range 238-242 volts instead of the nominal 230 volts it is supposed to be. I can only guess the OptiMains, OptiLevel and whatever other cicuits in the AMR can go about their task much more easily and the chassis remains cooler, or am I babbling physical nonsense?

Btw, so far I am very pleased with the Premier: I can't detect any loss of dynamics or other sonic degradation.

Cheers
Karel