Best Rock Player... Jupiter??

I'm not a Cary fan, but I know that it's fast enough for any rock and also tooo revealing for the bad mastered digi-records. As to EMC-1 it's quite a bit more costly than Cary although excellent machine for hard rock and classical music at the same time.
As to Rega stuff I'm not realy friendly since I realy did NOT like the performance of Rega Planet and Rega Planet 2000 after although never heard Jupiter. Is it just a transport? Planets used as transports never pleased my ears as well. The appearance of Planets aren't also pleasing and seems that CD-tray looks like a tray from pocket CD-player.

Since we've gone far afield from the players you initially mentioned as rock-friendly, I'll chime in with my own surprising recent discovery. I bought a used CAL Icon Mk II (without Power Boss upgrade) for about $400 as a back-up CD player to my EMC-1. The CAL is absolutely phenomenal as a rock CD player!! It is much more up-front and dynamic than the EMC-1, and sounds like it was built for rock music. My roommate will only use the CAL now, even for jazz. I still prefer the EMC-1, but I don't listen to too much rock anymore and have to agree that if I did, I would play it on the Icon instead of the EMC. Icons are always available used on this site, for around $400.

The Cambridge would be a good choice if they where to work properly.
Graet sonics for the price.
No money left over for build quality and quality control.
My CD6 lasted less than a day.
The line has been droped by some local High End shops.Too many problems with the reliability of the product.

Can anyone tell me about how the "tubed" Heart 6000
sounds with rock? Is it slow and lazy ? My freind
has been reading up on it and seems real jazzed about
the Heart 6000. I'd wait for him to get one and then
make my own conclussions but he just bought a condo
and won't have any money for quite awhile.

Tom

I've owned the Rega Planet and I presently own a Cary 303/100(no upsampling) and I can say without hesitation that the Rega was the slower sounding player as well as sounding veiled and uninvolving. I also listen to rock and between these 2 players it's a no brainer...Cary all the way.
But please do yourself a huge favor and take whatever cdp you want to audition and take it home and throw it in your system and listen with your cd's.
Your missing the boat if you rely totally on opinion..and that includes mine.