Meridian 508.24 or CEC TL15XR ??? HELP


Having a difficult time trying to decide.
The meridian (7yo) is being offered at almost double the price of the CEC (1yo).
No chance to demo either one and would like to replace Denon 3910 currently being used as CD source.
In other system, currently using Rega Apollo.
Saw a thread somewhere which a person 'upgraded' from the Meridian to the Rega, which is very disappointing to read because I never considered the Apollo to be THAT good.
Any advise???
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Showing 1 response by rgs92

The Meridian had a nice, liquid musical sound but
with revealing speakers there was some grain and
the bass could be undefined. I owned it for
4 years in the late 90's (to 2002).
A later Accuphase 75V was much better,
and EMM afterwards was an even bigger (huge, actually)
step up.
I did think the 508.24 was better than my Sony SCD777ES
I tried later.