Lector CDP7 vs Primare CD31

Do yourself a favor and save yourself a big headache and forget the Lector and Primare and buy a Prima Luna Prologue-8 all tube CD player. It will bury the Lector and
Primare. For the price of $3K, it is an absolute steal delivering a performance level to die for, that is normally
from player's $10K or over. Stereophile went nuts over the
Prima Luna and gave it an "A" rating.

Thank you for the replies.

Audiozen, I have considered the Primaluna, but that seems to come up for sale used even less than the Primare or Lector, which isn't very often.

buy a Prima Luna Prologue-8 all tube CD player. It will bury the Lector and Primare

Not so sure about that...read the whole review and be careful with system matching. If you are still upgrading, using the Prima Luna may limit some of your preamp choices down the road. Here is JA's summary of the measurements.....

Summing up the PrimaLuna ProLogue Eight's measured performance is difficult, as some of the things it does wrong, such as the increasing distortion at levels above –10dBFS, will not be that audible with typical music—a distorted snare-drum peak sounds the same as a clean one. But I was concerned about the effect of the transformer-radiated hum. I was also bothered by the very high output impedance at low frequencies, which will make system matching more difficult than usual.— JA

In fairness, they did generally like the sound, and thought an upgraded op-amp - Super I/V board ($235) - further improved things.