Back to the future with SACD? Moments like this make me grateful my collection is limited to just five discs that Sony handed me back in 2000. Shanling is once again raising the bar for frustrated ...

It would be easy to write off any new stereo disc player as anachronistic in this ... to do it than on Esoteric’s magnificent new K-05XD SACD/CD player. At £11,650 / $12,000 / AU$15,000 ...