Biggest soundstage in a CD Player ?

Topkat is right with regard to Marantz and Sony doing the R & D and the other smaller high end companies spinning off from their developments. There is a German high end company that manufactures a $10,000 CD player that is basically a slightly modified and cleverly tweeked Marantz CD 17 (that sells for about a tenth the price). Looking inside the German unit made me feel just a little angry, expecting something original and not finding it. Another example: the circuits inside a new French CD player series are modified CEC. Even the proprietary transport mechanism uses a Sanyo laser. There is a growing industry around Sony tweeks in Europe with around three different companies offering modified Sony red book players with resonance damping, circuit alteration, improved power supplies. It is as if the Japanese provided the framework in which so many smaller companies operate.

Oracle CD2500 cd player: It's looks take your breathe away!
I just got one!

Oracle CD2500 cd player: Its looks take your breathe away!
I just got one!

Audiomeca Mephisto and the Audiomeca Enkianthus dac. Simply some of the best

I understand people who have bought SACD are going nuts about it, but lets look at the facts :

a) the format has been on the market for two years
b) there are less than 500 titles available, and i would say 10% of those are mass market titles
c) Most people who have CDs, have Redbook CDs
d) No format is going to establish itself UNLESS it is successfull on the mass market

You can draw your own conclusions... Mine are, NO SACD thank you very much, at least not now.

Excuse me while i go audition a MLevinson 39 :)