David Looser wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message
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You would understand my curiosity and confusion here, given the claims of
manufacturers and reviewers.

I wouldn't give you the time of day for the claims of manufacturers or
reviewers. I lost faith in the latter (and stopped buying HiFi mags) after
reading a review of the Linn Sondek turntable sometime around 1980, which
was so absurdly and ridiciculoudly OTT in it's praise for it that, had it
been an advert, it would have contravened ASA rules.


And given the objective analysis available, you'd (well, I'd) think this
sort of thing:

http://www.arcam.co.uk/prod_fmj_CD37_intro.cfm

wouldn't be allowed.

I'm also confused by the fact that most of you tech aware types seem to
have spent many, many, times more than necessary on your CDP hardware to
achieve nothing of sonic benefit.

I used my Philips CD104 until it started going wrong faster than I could
keep repairing it. These days I use a modest Panasonic DVD player for CD
playback.

I just don't know. It's very rare that I listen to a whole CD - one or two
tracks tops.

Odd, very odd.

It's very rare that I interrupt an LP.

Well it's a lot more difficult to interupt to interupt one. In any case it
will "interupt" itself half-way through.

For some reason I find uncompressed computer rips (of a CD) played through
a CDPs DAC less 'unpleasant'

I wonder whether you could "really" tell the difference in a double-blind
test? Somehow I doubt it.


I wonder too; it doesn't make sense.

Rob