I recently bought a SB3 and have the following thoughts:

1) I dont think the SB sounds as good as my 596 playing CD's. i dont know why, but it just doesnt.

2) i listen to much more and varied music now i have the sb as i dont have to get up, take CD's out of the box and replace them. because i can just browse and click i listen to stuff i havent listened to in ages and i find myself really enjoying it.

i would highly recommend one and for 200 quid like other people have said its a drop in the ocean compared to an �8000 transport and it still wont be redundant. if you are flush you can always get one of those ripping services to copy your CD's to whatever format you like on DVD or hard drive and send them back to you, saves you the hassle for about 99p per CD.

go get one

john

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