A review of the Arcam CD73 ...

http://202.186.86.35/audio/story.asp...&sec=audiofile

Starring ...

- character

"Too dry sounding.” “Lacks colour.” “No character.” Audiophiles would no
doubt be familiar with such terms describing the Arcam sound in the past."


- burn in

"Fresh out of the box, the CD73 sounded colourless, dry and dull. After
a couple of days of running in, however, the player warmed up and began
to sing. The unit really needs to be burnt in, it has to be said."

- interconnect sound

"I decided to play around with the connections, switching the van den
Hul interconnects to an Eichmann eXpress pair. Immediately, the sound
became even leaner and images were thrown even further back within the
field; I preferred the presentation with the Van den Hul interconnects.
Whatever the case may be, one thing’s for sure – the CD73 will react to
changes in interconnects."

- power filters
"Curiosity suitably stirred up, I replaced the stock power cable with
the resident Kimber PowerKord. Again, the CD73 is responsive to changes
in power cabling, the effect being that it smoothened out the
presentation, noticeably removing a layer of glassiness from vocals. My
thoughts are that if you own a good power cord, it would be a good idea
to use it instead of the stock cable."


No mention of the listening room or damping!

No review is complete without:
"after changing componant X, the musicians started to play as if they really
meant it"

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...
No review is complete without:
"after changing componant X, the musicians started to play as if they
really
meant it"


Or: "I don't know if I'll have the strength to go on living when the review
is over and this xxxx has to go back....."

:-)

In article , Tat Chan
writes

A review of the Arcam CD73 ...

http://202.186.86.35/audio/story.asp...rcam&sec=audio
file

Starring ...

- character

"Too dry sounding.� “Lacks colour.� “No character.� Audiophiles would no
doubt be familiar with such terms describing the Arcam sound in the past."


- burn in

"Fresh out of the box, the CD73 sounded colourless, dry and dull. After
a couple of days of running in, however, the player warmed up and began
to sing. The unit really needs to be burnt in, it has to be said."

- interconnect sound

"I decided to play around with the connections, switching the van den
Hul interconnects to an Eichmann eXpress pair. Immediately, the sound
became even leaner and images were thrown even further back within the
field; I preferred the presentation with the Van den Hul interconnects.
Whatever the case may be, one thing’s for sure – the CD73 will react to
changes in interconnects."

- power filters
"Curiosity suitably stirred up, I replaced the stock power cable with
the resident Kimber PowerKord. Again, the CD73 is responsive to changes
in power cabling, the effect being that it smoothened out the
presentation, noticeably removing a layer of glassiness from vocals. My
thoughts are that if you own a good power cord, it would be a good idea
to use it instead of the stock cable."


No mention of the listening room or damping!

Christ!, What total bull****.

Still I suppose it sells magazines to those who need their fix;(
--
Tony Sayer