This is my Original 2008F HDCD compact disc player that was imported by me from China in 2006. After one year of use, the mains transformer burnt out and was replaced by a genuine UK mains unit. It has performed perfectly ever since however now it plays via a Beresford Caiman DAC that I bought early in 2010.
As a standalone CD player, the Original 2008F has a selectable digital filter which is either sharp or soft and is stunning with HDCD encoded discs. As a standard CD player the sound is quite coarse and confused hence the Beresford Caiman DAC to sort things out.