AMR CD-77

I also have been waiting for the cd-77 for a couple of months now.(I live in the Netherlands) Sold my CDP ( Accphase dp67) in the meantime and listened to a 15 year old Marantz cd 40. An audiofriend ( also waiting for the cd-77 and am77) had the ARC cd7 Ref at home for a demo. He offered me to take a good listening to it also. So he brought the player over to me and he said I good have it a for almost a week. Now we both had an extended demo at home with the AMR cd-77 and am-77. We liked it so much that we both wanted the cd77. But then the ARC CD7 came in to my life. To make a long story short. We both bought the ARC CD7. No matter what disc you play with it it does it so nice. It's a miracle. You just have to here it to believe it. Maybe in the future I can compare the cd7 with the cd77 direct. ( confusing or not AMR ARC CD7 CD77?). For now I am more then happy with the ARC and I hope that AMR can live up to the expectations.

williamredburry,
How long did you audition the amr cd77 for in your system? Was the unit broken in for a few hundred hours? Just trying to figure out why so many people comment on audio gear that is not broken in yet. It doesn't paint an accurate picture for people inquiring about certain equipment

Optarchie
Do we have a financial interest in this?
You seem to have allot of info regarding what they have sent out and so on.
Every time someone post an opinion on it, that isn’t glowing you seem too responded negative.
You are making assumptions that people haven’t broken the unit in or listened to it long enough.
People give opinions all day long on forums like this about other products; I don’t see you responding to them like you are this thread?
Again, what is your interest in this player? Are you associated with it in anyway? Just curious.
God forbid people will have there own opinion!
I said it before; there isn’t one thing in Audio that everyone will agree on, if there was there would be no need other manufactures, would there?

I just pay attention to what people write and no matter what is said, someone always interprets what was written incorrectly. I think everyone is entitled to thier own opinion but when it comes to audio equipment proper breakin is required for all equipment. It took me almost 700 hours to breakin in my von schweikert vr4 srs. A one week home audition for a new piece of audio gear is not proper breakin for any new piece of gear and most manufacturers recommend at least 2-3 hundred hours. I hope this clarifies. Also, it seems that people keep posting about the amr cd77 and no one in the USA has a new unit. The only unit available is a beta version which is a demo that was updated to spec a few weeks ago.

What is interesting is so many are griping about those inquiring as to whether the unit is broken in or not.

This is a one box player that appears very formidable according to the six moons review.

I am very interested to hear some feedback on the unit. I also know from experience My Esoteric X-01 Limited & Audio Aero Capitole MKII SE both took well over 4-500 hours to fully relax.

Do I have a vested interest? Yes. The same vested interest that any other person curious about this product and considering purchase of the unit does. Several thousand dollars would be a vested interest.

I think most in this hobby realize there is no "one" product that will be all for everybody.

What those of us that are curious about is to hear how this player will sound after a good several hundred hours on it. Not comparisons out of the box.

Let me clarify - good, bad, fabulous, ugly - review doesn't matter - as long as the reveiw is honest & accurate according to that persons ears in their system.

It is incredibly tiring to see people more worried about someones "interest" in a product than to hear about the product.