You got quite a selection of cadidates there. I own a Linn
Ikemi and lov it. Before you spend your cash on a new HDCD player check your CD collection to see how many of them a recorded in the HDCD format. Unless the CD is recorded in that format the player won't decode it in HDCD. HDCD was developed a few years ago as a superior method of recording
CDs. For some reason it lost momentum, to give you an example I own about 2,000 CDs the HDCD indicator has come up in less than a dozen disks.
In other words HDCD won't enhance the sound of every cd in your collection, it will just decode those CDs recorded in that format.
As an option, you may want to consider an "Upsampling Player", they will make every CD in your collection sound close to SACD. I have only heard the Classe CDP-10. I was
amazed with this player. Hope this helps, Hector.
Ikemi and lov it. Before you spend your cash on a new HDCD player check your CD collection to see how many of them a recorded in the HDCD format. Unless the CD is recorded in that format the player won't decode it in HDCD. HDCD was developed a few years ago as a superior method of recording
CDs. For some reason it lost momentum, to give you an example I own about 2,000 CDs the HDCD indicator has come up in less than a dozen disks.
In other words HDCD won't enhance the sound of every cd in your collection, it will just decode those CDs recorded in that format.
As an option, you may want to consider an "Upsampling Player", they will make every CD in your collection sound close to SACD. I have only heard the Classe CDP-10. I was
amazed with this player. Hope this helps, Hector.