"Bob Latham" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" wrote
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It's well over 200UKP. Why does it sound better than a
Sony £30 DVD player?

**Send me the schematic of your 30 Squid Sony and I'll
tell you. The HK has a number of significant technical
details which, IMO, make it sound better than all the
cheap players (and most of the expensive ones) I've ever
heard.

I thought that all named CDPs sound identical nowadays?!

**I suggest you do some listening. You may well be in for
a shock.

If you listen with a salesman in attendance, or after reading the usual
ignorant hype in one of the high end ragazines, or if you speak with a
friend who has spent stupid money on a high end optical disc player,
then you may well hear better sound from the more expensive player.
That's the major problem with sighted evaluations - you never know why
you perceive what you may think you perceive.

All CD players sound the same. Is there any time scale to this? I have not
compared CD players since around 1990. At that time most CD players to my
ears sounded pretty grim and the Meridian 207 and 208 were the only
players I had the opportunity to hear that did the job at all well. If the
popular wisdom here is that even then they sounded the same, then I need
to find a new group to read.

**I, for one, know full well, that all CD players were/are not created
equal. Far from it. In those days, the Meridians were, indeed, the best
available.

Trevor Wilson