On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:32:12 -0000, "Oliver Keating"
wrote:


Which brings me onto CD players. I always thought that amplifier and
speakers mattered the most, but What HiFi reckons CD players are important,

Speakers first IMHO followed by the turntable, then the amp.

So in a £1,000 CD player are you paying for a great DAC (which you won't
use) or simply some very good error correction in the reading process?

I can already feel the flames licking around me, but having listened
to a fair number of CD players over the last few years the
diffierences (once you get beyond the very cheap and cheerful) seem to
me to be very small indeed and as much a matter of personal taste as
anything else.

I just wonder if this magazine is just designed so that the industry is able
to flog expensive kit.

Yes, and maybe to persuade us that a new product is necessarily
better.

Regards

David