Former Rega Apollo owners, Upgraded to what?

I am a former apollo owner and Ive upgraded to a musical fidelity a5. When I purchased the apollo they were priced right at a grand. I thought it was good. I also have a denon 3910 universal player. I had a non-audiofile frield comment on how it was crazy to spend a thousand bucks on a cd player. I proceded to give him an a b comparison of the players hoping I could sway his opinion, but I couldn't. As a matter of fact I was surprised how little better it was than the denon universal. About a month ago i found an mf a5 here for 1700 with waranty, and they took my apollo in trade for about what I'd get for it if I tried to sell it myself. Wow!!! What a difference, now this was a huge step up. The same friend who took the a b comparison before came over. He said, "another even more expensive player". I gave him the a b against the denon again. This time he was blown away by how much better the mf was. Ive seen them used here as low as 1400 which is real close to what a new apollo costs. With the few hundred dollar price difference it was a no brainer. I'd like to add that my rega dealer let me demo a saturn, and I found it only marginaly better than the apollo, and nowhere close to the mf a5. I'm not trying to belittle the regas but the mf just blew me away.