Vincent CD-S8 Hybrid HDCD CD Player

has posted his review the tube/solid-state hybrid Vincent CD-S8 Hybrid HDCD CD player ($3,295) at Enjoy the Music. His conclusions:

Well here we are at the end of the review and sadly the CD-S8 is soon to be returned leaving a hole in my system that will unfortunately be hard to replace. In today’s world with manufacturers producing CD players costing ten thousand US dollars or more it was a good to see Vincent Audio coming in at only $3295 retail. Still this is a very difficult price point as there are players costing much less than the CD-S8. You might ask yourself is it worth the extra expenditure of funds to move up to this quality of a CD player, well for me the answer was an unequivocal yes as it greatly impressed me on so many levels. The HDCD encoded discs sounded excellent, the joy of tube rolling was a delight as was the addition of a headphone amplifier (with headphone output jack and volume control) as well as the fact that playback even with my red book CD's was vastly improved upon. This CD-S8 CD player had all of the above plus, digital, optical and even XLR outputs housed within a substantially built 23.8 pound enclosure. If this is too much for your budget fear not as there might be a Vincent Audio product for you yet, for their CD-S1.1 and CD-S6 Hybrid CD players are priced considerable less. For those who would like to up the ante a bit more you might want to also consider their other Hybrid CD player the C60. Priced at around $4695 and featuring a top-loading system with a puck-style CD stabilizer the C60 looks to be another interesting venture into the world of CD playback from Vincent Audio. For now though you must excuse me as the CD-S8 is calling and while it is here I intend to savor every minute of the musical bliss it has to offer.

You can read the full review here.