I bought the V3 in June 2020. I am consistently amazed every day how great this thing sounds for $1700. Easily worth twice that imo. The phono preamp is also unbelievable, currently running a Quintet Red mc but looking to upgrade to a Hana SL. Only issue is that the Hana likes to be around 500 on the load, but the choices on the Sphinx in that neighborhood is 300 and then 1k and 47k. Herb Reichert reviewed the Sphinx and chose 300 on the load for the Hana EL.
Back to the Sphinx....this anp will be legendary some day at price/performance ratio.