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- Subject: Re: Why would CD carousel sound worse than single-play?dow 900
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.133658.16964@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 13:36:58 EST
- References: <1993Jan22.104313.15975@microsoft.com> <shetline-220193233927@128.89.19.90>
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- Organization: Cornell University
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- > In article <1993Jan22.104313.15975@microsoft.com>, davidl@microsoft.com
- > (David Long) wrote:
- >>
- >> It seems to me that with CD players, designing the unit as
- >> a carousel changer shouldn't result in any degradation of
- >> sound quality compared to a single-play unit. However,
- >> some salespeople have told me that the single-plays sound
- >> better. I don't understand why.
- >>
- >
- > More seriously, because a bias against changers already existed from the
- > days of LPs (when it was justified), it carried on without any good reason
- > into the CD world. It has become a self-fulfilling prejudice, however,
- > because many manufacturers making high-quality CD players don't want to
- > have to fight market perceptions, whether they are justified or not.
- >
- > -Kerry
-
- Consider the logical argument:
-
- While carousel changers should not be intrinsically better or worse sounding
- than single disc CD players, their additional components and complexity add
- substantially to the final cost. Theoretically then, a single disc player
- should cost less than a carousel changer of equivalent sonic quality.
-
- Furthermore, pricey high-end CD players are almost exclusively of the single
- disc variety, so people tend to generalize (wrongly) all carousel changers as
- being consumer grade stuff inferior to single disc models.
-
- Philip
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