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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!qemx
  2. From: qemx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
  3. Newsgroups: rec.audio
  4. Subject: Re: Why would CD carousel sound worse than single-play?dow 900
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan23.133658.16964@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 13:36:58 EST
  7. References: <1993Jan22.104313.15975@microsoft.com> <shetline-220193233927@128.89.19.90>
  8. Followup-To: rec.audio
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  10. Organization: Cornell University
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  13. > In article <1993Jan22.104313.15975@microsoft.com>, davidl@microsoft.com
  14. > (David Long) wrote:
  15. >> 
  16. >> It seems to me that with CD players, designing the unit as 
  17. >> a carousel changer shouldn't result in any degradation of
  18. >> sound quality compared to a single-play  unit.  However, 
  19. >> some salespeople have told me that the single-plays sound 
  20. >> better.  I don't understand why.
  21. >> 
  22. > More seriously, because a bias against changers already existed from the
  23. > days of LPs (when it was justified), it carried on without any good reason
  24. > into the CD world. It has become a self-fulfilling prejudice, however,
  25. > because many manufacturers making high-quality CD players don't want to
  26. > have to fight market perceptions, whether they are justified or not.
  27. > -Kerry
  28.  
  29. Consider the logical argument:  
  30.  
  31. While carousel changers should not be intrinsically better or worse sounding
  32. than single disc CD players, their additional components and complexity add
  33. substantially to the final cost.  Theoretically then, a single disc player
  34. should cost less than a carousel changer of equivalent sonic quality.
  35.  
  36. Furthermore, pricey high-end CD players are almost exclusively of the single
  37. disc variety, so people tend to generalize (wrongly) all carousel changers as
  38. being consumer grade stuff inferior to single disc models.
  39.  
  40.                 Philip
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