Moon impressions

I have a sim dealer close by and he asked if I would bring my meridian G08 to compare to his super nova in his sim stack. Both of us prefered the meridian. More musical with better 'prat'. I would say the only thing better about the super nova was it has a lower noise floor.

A couple of months later while I was demoing speaker cables my meridian started to have playback problems. The dealer loaned my his super nova while I sent the meridian in for service. In my system (bryston) I still prefered the meridian.

The only other player I demoed in my home was the esoteric sa-10. To me the esoteric had more detail which was great on great recordings but sterile sounding on recordings that were not so good.

So to me the esoteric was too detailed and lacked musicality and the super nova was in between.

Thats my opinion

read my review of a sim audio cd player on audiophilia.com .

My first experience with Sim audio cdp goes back to couple years. While I was impressed with the sheer resolution, pure tone, prodigious bass extension and authoritative presentation, I never did warm up to Sim audio's somewhat colourless and less involving signature.

That was until I heard the new $1.5 K Moon CD-1. This new model while do not have the ultimate in audiophile qualities with the more expensive models, somehow infuse a tonal richness and timbral rightness I have not encountered in Sim's earlier models. I thought Sim audio has striked a sweet spot with the value equation with the CD-1, and easily amongst the best I have heard at this price point. The soundstage.com review is spot on. I have not heard the latest Super Nova, but if it is anywhere building on these strength would be a winner in my books.