Rega Apollo: Excellent Cond-With Remote-Original Boxes

I'm the original and only owner (MRSP $995 - purchased from The Sound Organisation, Dallas, TX) and after careful examination it looks and performs like a 9/10 on Audiogon's scale: Excellent - Perfect physical condition, light use. I've loved this player and the only reason for this sale is that about a year ago I changed my system to a laptop and an external DAC to play music. Since this player is not being used, I hope to find a good home for it.
Just check out the pictures, this video demonstration of the remote control being used to play an Art Tatum CD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2T6jFLJPAk&t=40s) and my feedback (100% on Audiogon and 100% on Ebay) to be assured that you will not be disappointed with your purchase. As you can see in the pics, the player comes complete with its original power cord, remote control, Rega box, and shipping box (will be double boxed for safe shipping). I’m searching for the manual but if it continues to elude me, a printed copy will be included.

Buyer pays shipping and I'll cover Paypal fees. Prefer to ship only to CONUS (Lower 48 Contiguous States).

Here are some review excerpts:
Stereophile: For the here and now, however—here being $1000 and now being $1000 as well—the Rega Apollo is satisfying in a way that no similarly priced player of my experience can boast: It wouldn't embarrass any system I know (save for the most irredeemably bright), and would only improve the core musical values of most. The Apollo is a surprising step forward in a field that I'd thought was empty of same, and a hell of a bargain. Very strongly recommended.

What Hi-Fi: Rega, better-known for its turntables, is no slouch in the CD department, either. Good enough, in fact, to knock the indisputably superb 2006 Product of the Year Cyrus CD6s off its perch.
CD players from Rega are top-loading designs, so make sure – if it's not going to sit on the top shelf of your rack, which might well be occupied by a turntable – that there's enough space to open the lid, and insert a CD. This is the one concession you'll have to make in owning this CD player. In every other respect, you're going to be cosseted like a child.
Lift the space-age disc cover – and remember there's no mechanism to fail or flimsy drawer to break – and drop in a disc. Pleasingly, it'll be read quickly, and with an absence of noise.
Joy Division's These Days is reproduced without fuss, too. Where some players emphasise this track's rawness to the point of chafing, the Apollo instead picks out the superb detail of Peter Hook's bass-line. Percussion is precise without being sharp; guitar licks and synth stabs are added deftly, while vocals sound appropriately emotive. You can almost see Ian Curtis live-wiring across the stage.
Switch to the slicker, infinitely more polished production of New Order's True Faith, and the Rega still manages to create a sense of performance. Timing is impeccable, with notes starting and stopping on a sixpence, while the midrange has room to let the myriad electronic layers find their own space in the mix.
Overall, we're talking about a formidable product here. Fast and substantial when it needs to be, but deft and harmonious at the correct time, too. It's a master of all trades, and a worthy Product of the Year for 2007.

The Ear: I use an Apollo for all my CD music reviews because it’s so good at revealing the quality of playing and composition that the artist(s) put down in the studio or on stage. It also tells me about the nature of the recording, this isn’t its speciality but it’s revealing enough to let you know how things were done if not precisely how many layers of sound there are or the make of the microphones. Mind you I don’t know one mic from another so that’s a bit academic. Things like the character of instruments are pretty clear, specific pianos are easy to spot in this respect as are other acoustic instruments, the limitation is one’s knowledge rather than a lack of resolution.
What’s more important is being able to appreciate a wide variety of musical styles. More exciting or refined disc players can often make this harder because they don’t have the timing ability that the Apollo does. This is a key quality in all the Rega products I have heard, time smear as it’s sometimes described has largely been eliminated and this means that this crucial musical quality can be easily appreciated and the message gets through. Any player can make a great recording of relatively simple music sound good, but it takes one with good timing to reveal the music in a dense mix of a complex composition. In my case that usually means jazz which can get pretty convoluted at times, even the greats like John Coltrane and Miles Davis have made albums that are hard work for the newcomer and this is where the Apollo really shows its worth. Allowing you to approach what’s going on even if it’s not something that initially appeals. Often the best pieces of music are those that require some effort to appreciate, repeated exposure and familiarisation usually does the trick one way or the other but you have to be able to approach the stuff in the first place. I’m not saying that it can make music you don’t like more appealing but it does present it in an easy to access fashion, if you don’t enjoy something on the Apollo you are unlikely to do so on another machine. Unless of course you are after a particular sound, some dislike this player because it lacks colour and finesse, it’s not particularly smooth in truth and if you have a particularly transparent system you might find that a warmer sounding interconnect than usual is necessary to patch over its relatively dry presentation. I use an Apollo with Van den Hul The Second interconnect, a Border Patrol valve Control Unit and ATC SCM150 ASL active loudspeakers. I have heard a few disc spinners in this system that better the Rega in most respects but not many that are significantly better in terms of musical focus.

Specifications:
Description: Single-box CD player. Formats supported: CD, CD-R, MP3, WMA. Digital output jacks: RCA, optical. Analog output jacks: RCA. Maximum output level: 2.0V RMS. Power consumption: 12W.
Dimensions: 17" (435mm) W by 3.9" (100mm) H by 10.5" (270mm) D. Weight: 8 lbs (3.64kg).

Price: $995. Approximate number of dealers: 115.
Manufacturer: Rega Research Ltd., 119 Park Street, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 7PD, England, UK. Tel: (44) 1702-333071.
US distributor: The Sound Organisation, 11140 Petal Street, Suite 350, Dallas, TX 75238. Tel: (972) 234-0182. Fax: (972) 234-0249.