nobody mentioned technics, I knowsome of them use Philips CDM 12.1 transports which are used on some very expensive machines. I have one that reads everything you throw at it. TNT has a review of Atoll CD 100 - CD player, which goes for 1,250 Euro/$. When compairing it to a technics pg 490 they say " We opened the two players and compared them side by side. No doubt, the two players were stunningly close."