Was playing them either thru a Pioneer multi-CD player (for my house parties) or Samsung CD/DVD player, piped thru pair of pretty decent Klipsh speakers with a pretty good Onkyo amp

Long time owner of the very good sounding Onkyo C-7030

cost is just too high when the Onkyo 7030 is available for almost 50% the cost

This Yamaha is a very good soundingplayer but at 7.7 LBs it's not built as well as the Onkyo with it's very high end power transformer

So after running this equipment with both CD players I found the Onkyo 7030 to be the best in build quality and sound

I did many A/B comparisons between this Yamaha and the Onkyo as I thought the Onkyo was just too cheap to be any good

I was almost swayed into buying a less expensive Onkyo but, remembering my mom's penchant for buying electronics to matchy-match, I decided at the last possible moment to go with the Yamaha CD-S300BL instead