Twelve months after getting my G08 I noticed a whining noise when I played specific CD's. (Loud when reading the disc, then easing off to nothing after two or three tracks) It went back to the shop, they replaced the transport and the noise was gone. Twelve months later the same thing happened again - the whine, not the replacement of the transport. By this time the local importer (I'm in Australia) had been advised by Meridian that they know the transport is noisy on certain discs (I don't know if it's a balance issue with discs not quite centered or what) but as the transport otherwise sounds fine then they weren't going to do anything about it. I sit about 3.5 metres from the player and it's loud enough to be heard over quiet patches in the music on the discs that are a problem. I believe that if I burnt a copy of the disc then I may get around the problem. This is not satisfactory to me on what is not a cheap player.

Cheers,

Craig.