"Finally and at last, here is a CD player under $2500 I can unabashedly recommend for analog music seekers and lovers! Hallelujah! With four mighty 6922 Tesla Tubes in its output stage, both balanced and single ended outputs, and a price of just $2395, the LA Audio Pro-2 vacuum tube CD Player is a sure thing for those with major CD collections and no wish to bet the bank right now on either Sooloos or expensive separates. Plus, with a bit of tube rolling, you will go miles toward closing the performance gap between the much more expensive ModWright Sony designs and the E.A.R. Acute CD Player.

Forget about mass market CD / Universal players with all solid state outputs, they will not give you the involving sound, the mellifluous-ness, the dynamics, and the smoothness of the Pro-2. I heard it for the first time in an all LA Audio system with the new Isophon Speakers distributed by KT Audio Imports and run by the friendly Tom Vu. I thought he was playing a turntable then realized it was this brand new LA Audio Pro-2 CD player from Taiwan. It gets so much right that criticizing it is tough!"