Shanling CD T-100 - Anyone heard it?

[witters]

This is just about the best looking player I've seen. Does anyone have any experience of it?

Info here

[Ed Selley]

Their SACD player sounded very good (better to my ears than the Sony XA-3000) although it would seem that the fit & finish is not quite as good as one might hope on units of this price. It does look fantastic though.

[OnTheFly]

Ken Kessler of Hi-Fi News demoed it and raved about the sound quality. If Ken says it's good, it's good.

[alexs2]

Smooth and clear...really very good sound quality at that price level.
Couldn't really fault the finish on the model I was looking at either.....it may simply be a bit of production line variation.

[asavage97]

Theres some company selling a vervios of this cd player called the Level 1 modified which is aparently even better sounding than the standard.

The only problem I see with it is that every 60000 hours you need to replace the valves (ok so 60000 hours is a long time but if I bought a cd player for that much I 'd want to keep it till I drop dead.)