If I'm correct, when you were experimenting with different CD players with a view to forking out not insignificant sums of cash, you were still in your pre-Mana/unborn phase of hi-fi life when your mind may have been a little more open to what the different boxes can actuall do...

Even pre-Mana I was always disappointed with CD player 'upgrades'. The salesman would go into eulogies about how great this particular player was, I'd listen to it in comparison to the other not-so-good one, and usually came away a bit perplexed as to what the fuss was all about.

The CDX demo was conducted off-glass, so to speak. The myth about the CDX not working on glass was put about by NANA some years ago. Red faces at NANA, I guess, when Naim's own Fraim appeared with glass shelving.

As I said recently Steven, generally speaking it's people who have a CD-only front end who are the most fervent believers in this player trashing that one.

Yes, there are small differences, but in the scheme of things, well...there are small differences.