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- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Subject: Re: Is high priced CD player worth the money?
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:15:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.211559.25964@omen.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec21.080720.27222@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <2B35918E.19858@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Dec21.164637.13024@nynexst.com>
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- In article <1992Dec21.164637.13024@nynexst.com> rsilvers@nynexst.com (Robert Silvers) writes:
- >In article <2B35918E.19858@news.service.uci.edu> tao@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Eric Yihching Tao) writes:
- >>
- >>I remember some time ago in Stereo Review magazine that the sound quality
- >>in different CD is mininal, so a $199 changer will sound almost as good as
- >>any $499 ones, the feature might be less, but as far as sound goes, they
- >>are about the same, is this true?
- >
- > If you have good speakers, you will notice the difference. Stereo Review
- >is not a good source of information. Their only purpose is to sell lots of junk
- >to consumers. My friend's CD player broke and while it was being repaired, he
- >hooked up his Sony portable. The difference was amazing! The Sony sounded like
- >a transistor radio! He has really good speakers, so your mileage will vary. I
-
- Indeed it might. My Sony portable has a bad DAC or something
- and it distorts on certain pasages such as soft flutes. Other
- music sounds OK. This is apparent on earphones, I've never had
- it connected to anything else.
-
- My recollection of Hirsch's comment was that any properly
- operating CD player will sound about the same. (Obviously my
- portable isn't operating properly.) He also wrote that he
- thought there was a slight but definite difference between
- analog brick wall and oversampling, but hasn't decided which
- sounds better.
-
- In my own experience I would rate the sonic differences between
- properly operating CD players as negligible compared to the differences
- between different speakers, different listening rooms, and different
- speaker placements.
-
- And now for something completely different: is there a long-play
- mode on the minidisc that would allow 3-4 hours of medium quality
- (possibly mono) recording? What about changers or stackers?
-
- Fascinating to think of a recording medium that reminds me of
- the recording "chips" Spock used to get from the Computer.
-
- How many times can an MD be rerecorded?
-
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- Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
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