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Lector CDP 7 Mk I, II or III ?

I plan to part with my second system Ayre gear to refinance a purchase for the main system and am considering to retain only the Yamamoto headphones with another good cdp. And so I came accross Lector, unknown on the local market and thus even more interesting.

Now, I did a search on Agon and found several people specifically advising the CDP 7 Mk I, clearly prefering it over the later versions.

Is the original Lector CDP 7 sonically better? Any specific reason for that?

Thanks in advance
Karel
karelfd
karelfd OP
476 posts
 
Much obliged, thank you very much!

I'm located in Germany, otherwise I would probably have jumped on the Agon offer. By the way, contrary to what I said before I found out Lector is distributed in Germany after all. Price for the Mk III over here is just over EUR 3k, more than I wanted to spend for the second system so I'll be monitoring the market. (Meanwhile, I've seen a "young" YBA Classic Sigma 3 = same as the Passion CD 400 on offer in France, aah, choices, choices, is this hobby some exotic form of masochism?)

Karel
reb1208
518 posts
 
"I have no idea why it has been listed for 19 days without being sold."

"Used" cd players of just about any make have been very slow to sell. Just take a look at the current listings, many great players for sale, with no buyers.
tgyeti
84 posts
 
"I have no idea why it has been listed for 19 days without being sold."

zero feedback is a liability.
mitch2
4,023 posts
 
That was a strong statement, and my point was simply that IMO the MkIII for $2,100 is a great deal. I have been thinking about trying other players, but dispite months of looking at options, every time I listen to my system with the Lector I think to myself, "can it really sound much better than this?" Even considering the current market conditions, as Reb1208 points out, anything I have strongly considered as a potential replacement has been in the vicinity of $4K used, or above. While I have had no problems whatsoever with any of the 3 Lectors I have owned, my other self-imposed criteria for a new player is that it be made in the USA, or at least have easily obtainable service in the USA, like Esoteric or Meridian. Of course, Tgyeti is correct about the zero feedback liability. I sometimes offer those sellers the option of COD.
reb1208
518 posts
 
Once you get to a certain level of cd playback, a "better" sounding player becomes more difficult to find. One option is to consider modified players. And if your handy, do the mods yourself. Having look at the innards of many costly players in the 5K+ range, many if not most of them use atleast some "cheapo" parts.
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