"Chesney Christ" wrote in message
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A certain Kurt Hamster, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

(1) dual lasers are fitted.

Thereby doubling the price.

Perhaps someone informed could contribute a view here, but I doubt that.
Look at the price that DVD players (all with dual lasers) have fallen
to. In fact they are more readily and cheaply available than standalone
CD players. The cost of producing a transport with dual lasers seems
negligible.

Either way, this has zero effect on the transport, which will be
specified to reproduce the recording to a certain level of accuracy, and
therefore zero effect on the sound.

It's all part of the transport component. To my ears my 12 year old Sony
CD player sounds much better than my 9 month old Tosh DVD player (whilst
playing CDs of course!).

I don't doubt that. The issue there is more likely to be the DAC and the
analogue electronics. I am not trying to claim that a DVD player will
sound the same as a CD player (even if they're both high quality). I am
saying that the *transport* will have no effect on the sound.

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I had a cheap DVD player from the CO-OP costed 120 quid, (2 years ago)
and also an old Sony CD player, switching between the two sources,
playing the original CD and a cloned copy of an album,
the CD player had slightly more brilliance at the top end.
and also the DVD player must !!! have had fuzzy logic programming in it.
it took quite a few albums for it to actualy play an audio CD......
handled DVDs ok from the start, but tried to burst read the audio CDs,
read play read play etc very nasty at first.
this happend for about 10 audio CDs then it didnt happen anymore.