"Eiron" wrote in message
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Arnold wrote:

The article doesn't have engineering graphs or stats for the rational
scientific types but I enjoyed reading about this flamboyant person who
has a passion for beautiful things, who is creative and about his
philosophy when designing Marantz's hi-fi components.

I wonder what his philosophy was when designing my DVD player?
It misses the first half-second or so when playing CDs.
He deserves hara-kiri for letting something lke that out of the factory



The much vaunted 'CD-63 MkII KI Signature CD player' I had (and flogged on
eBay a few weeks back) glitched at the start of every CDR I put in it,
didn't play CDRWs, didn't play MP3s and and didn't beat an Argos cheepie
I've still got and which does all of that without the *glitching*.....

Here they both are in 'comparison mode' - I A/B'd these (time and level
matched) 20,000,000 times and got a number of people to hear them to be
absolutely *certain* that a 70 quid 'toy CDP' was as good as the so-called
'guru gear'.....

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/CDPs.JPG

*No-one* could tell them apart - I was able to slip from one to the other on
the Argos amp's remote.

And the same on this Denon amp's remote:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Denon.jpg


As I did when I A/B compared FM and DAB on another occasion recently:

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Tuners.jpg


Next comparison (starts in 10 minutes) will be my Lowther EX3s in both the
Jericho and Fidelio cabinets - that'll be tough (no quick swap) and will
take weeks...

(One or two of the 'old hand' wiseacres here think I just read the ****ing
cereal packets and 'go with the flow'.....!! ;-)