Listening tests:

Did a few listening tests one evening with some well known records - Eagles - Fleetwood Mac - Chet Baker - Led Zep III - Dire Straits - plus a few more.

The biggest accolade I can pay it is that I listened to everything pretty much all the way through and pretty much thought sod the testing this just sounds good. I then had to A/B a few tracks back to back with my LP12 setup just to make sure I wasn't favoring my new bit of kit too much

Thankfully the LP12 does still sound better but the gap is no where near the cost difference. To be honest I was relieved it didn't better my #1 setup as if it had, serious questions would have been asked. It certainly performed way beyond expectation. Plus the added functionality combined with the "chuck it on and forget" factor is the icing on the cake for me.