Originally had an Oppo BDP-103 DVD/CD drive which was OK, but then got a CA dedicated transport and that was much better in clarity and definition. Disclaimer: the CXC V1 I bought was used. Had it for about 2 years until it started getting very picky about the discs it read (had to be pristine), made horrible grinding noises when loading after a delay, and eventually just stopped reading discs altogether. Loved the sound when it worked, however. Dumped it and had the 6000CDT for about a week or two - in spite of all of the rave reviews, there always seemed that something was missing to me in my system, so I sent it back and got a new CXC V2. Currently not encountering any of the V1 issues that I had with the V2. I see some people complaining about the 6000CDT slot drive scratching their discs but I never had any of that, and the display is nicer on it than the CXCs. The CXCs also have a quirk that I'm told is not uncommon but it surprised me when I first got it: when playing a song, if you hit the double arrow back button it doesn't restart at the beginning of the song but at the beginning of the PREVIOUS song, which I thought was weird. BTW, neither will play SACD content, though if the disc has CD content it will play that.
