How do you improve a What Hi Fi Sound and Vision award winner Easy just continue the same painstaking philosophy of product dedication, keep even the tiniest of details at the top of mind, do everything possible to optimize mechanism and potent power supply, insist on premium digital to analogue conversion with CS4398, and ensure a mirrored symmetrical output stage with Marantz own HDAM SA2 amplifiers. And when all that is done, check it all again and fine tune with even more specially selected components. We also added a solid metal bottom plate and centralised the CD mechanisms location. That is how, for example, we virtually eliminated vibration. In addition, the stable, oversized power supply feeds the digital and analogue circuitry of the player, where the high quality CS4398 converts digital signals to analogue, this is then pushed to the gold plated synch outputs by Marantzs own small signal amplifier, the HDAM SA2. Altogether the CD6004 is a match made in heaven for the music lover who wants nothing but the best performance at an attractive price. And one more thing its also perfect for lovers of portable music, thanks to its iPod digital connectivity.