CD Player advice required ....
 

Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a new CD player and am looking for the best product
to purchase.

My limit is £200.00 and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanx,

HA

CD Player advice required ....
 

"HA wrote
Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a new CD player and am looking for the best
product
to purchase.

My limit is £200.00 and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanx,

HA

Unlike most kit a CD player is the one item, I would not buy second hand,
too many bits to ware out and go wrong.

For £200.00 listen to the Marantz CD5000 at £150.00

Also the Sony CDPX500 £100.00 these two from Sevenoaks

And last Phillips CD753 @ £199.00 from Richer

If it was me, I would go for the Philips, I borrowed one to try out, and
its got a nice sound and good build quality.

regards

Dave xxxxxx

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"HA" wrote in message
.. .
Hi,

I'm looking to purchase a new CD player and am looking for the best
product
to purchase.

My limit is £200.00 and any advice would be greatly appreciated.



Hmmm, are you sure you want to go the CD route? This group is full of
threads debating the highly 'variable' quality of many CDPs, there's a post
at the moment mentioning difficulties encountered with current anti-piracy
measures and the medium itself is on its last legs. (It's worse now than it
was 30 years ago!)

Why not consider SS (that's 'solid state' on this group AFAIAC) and do away
with all the frantic whirling and spinning and take half of the 'digital
problems' out of the occasion.

Better yet, try to hear a turntable (the above mentioned Debut will do for
starters) before you commit yourself - you might find you like it. (It's a
'quality' over 'quantity' thing...... ;-)

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"HA" wrote in message
.. .

I'm looking to purchase a new CD player and am looking for the best
product
to purchase.

My limit is £200.00 and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Forget about CD players, get a DVD player and kill two birds with one stone.

There are so many good sounding optical disc players these days that it's
hard to work up the energy to recommend just one of them.

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"Chesney Christ" wrote in message
...
A certain Keith G, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

My limit is £200.00 and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Hmmm, are you sure you want to go the CD route?

OK, now you're clearly trolling.



Moi?

:-)


This chap is asking an honest question.
If anyone wants to listen to any modern music, they *must* go the CD
route. LP's aren't being manufactured any more in any significant
numbers.


Incorrect, I was given to understand that the entire, recent Top 20 was
available on vinyl. (The MI might be in a right state Chezzer, but it ain't
*that* fekkin' slow!)


Am I a troll for saying that ?


No, bless ya - that ain't even in the ballpark for 'trolling'! Don't give it
another thought!



It is wrong for you to try to mislead people in this way. Evangelise
about vinyl, fine, but it is irresponsible to recommend it in a
situation where it is clearly unsuitable.

In any case, can you name a decent vinyl deck for £200 ?


I already did - ProJect 1.2. (Do you get *all* the posts?)



Why not consider SS (that's 'solid state' on this group AFAIAC) and do
away
with all the frantic whirling and spinning and take half of the 'digital
problems' out of the occasion.

What music is distributed on solid state medium ?


Huh? (Never heard of the Internet?)


What are these "digital problems" experienced with what you call "solid
state" ?


No - distorted again (what new?) - I haven't experienced any problems with
solid state digital music, it's the 'spinning it about' that introduces most
of the problems I think you'll find.


"Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com


Quack quack, then.....


(Off out now - more later, if you want! ;-)

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"Chesney Christ" wrote in message
...
A certain Keith G, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

This chap is asking an honest question.
If anyone wants to listen to any modern music, they *must* go the CD
route. LP's aren't being manufactured any more in any significant
numbers.

Incorrect, I was given to understand that the entire, recent Top 20 was
available on vinyl. (The MI might be in a right state Chezzer, but it
ain't
*that* fekkin' slow!)

Not incorrect. If I go into the local HMV and pick 100 CDs at random, at
best one or two of them will be available to buy new on vinyl. And I'll
have to go to lengths to find 'em.


I've said it before, given the extra work to 'do' vinyl properly, you have
to be nutz - even I will admit that. But, by way of compensation, it is well
worth the extra effort and expense IMO. Buy the latest copy of HiFi+ for
some pointers - no shortage of 'vinyl mentions' there.

Hmm, saying your local HMV doesn't have 'xyz' is a bit like saying 'Tescos
didn't have it, so it doesn't exist........'

If you are able to go into a 'local shop' and find what you want (albeit at
USA × 2 pricewise....) on the format you prefer, then you don't need to do a
single thing different - it's no big deal. Like I've said before - I got no
problem with your preferences whatsoever.




I have seen the lists of some LPs being produced. They're far from
complete. If there's an album that you want on vinyl, you *might* be
able to get it but there's a good chance that you won't.

What are these "digital problems" experienced with what you call "solid
state" ?

No - distorted again (what new?) - I haven't experienced any problems
with
solid state digital music, it's the 'spinning it about' that introduces
most
of the problems I think you'll find.

In that case, why doesn't music get damaged by the spinning of your hard
disk (which you'll presently hear, whirring at 7200rpm) ?


You're kidding, right.....??



Why doesn't music get damaged by spinning vinyl ?


Because we take the trouble to see it spins evenly and at the correct speed.
If you are referring to the fact that it takes a physical phenomenon to
produce the music, I suggest you don't dwell on how most (non-electronic)
music is produced in the first place......


duck bit snipped this time

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A certain Keith G, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :
Not incorrect. If I go into the local HMV and pick 100 CDs at random, at
best one or two of them will be available to buy new on vinyl. And I'll
have to go to lengths to find 'em.

I've said it before, given the extra work to 'do' vinyl properly, you have
to be nutz - even I will admit that.

It doesn't matter how nuts you are - you can't procure albums on vinyl
that never get published. It must be a damn unsatisfying experience
these days anyway to buy a modern album on vinyl, since start-to-finish
it'll have been recorded and produced on all-digital equipment.

Hmm, saying your local HMV doesn't have 'xyz' is a bit like saying 'Tescos
didn't have it, so it doesn't exist........'

HMV and Virgin are where most people buy their music.

In that case, why doesn't music get damaged by the spinning of your hard
disk (which you'll presently hear, whirring at 7200rpm) ?

You're kidding, right.....??

No, you said the spinning is what causes the problems ? The digital
mastering systems used today which feature non-destructive editing and
so on all record digitally onto a spinning hard disk.

Why doesn't music get damaged by spinning vinyl ?

Because we take the trouble to see it spins evenly and at the correct speed.

Not even a good turntable spins completely evenly, and even if it does,
the vinyl itself might not be 100% flat and undistorted. Wow and flutter
is very easy to measure (and completely unmeasurable on a CD player).

--

"Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com

CD Player advice required ....
 

Hmmm, are you sure you want to go the CD route? This group is full of
threads debating the highly 'variable' quality of many CDPs, there's a post
at the moment mentioning difficulties encountered with current anti-piracy
measures and the medium itself is on its last legs. (It's worse now than it
was 30 years ago!)

Why not consider SS (that's 'solid state' on this group AFAIAC) and do away
with all the frantic whirling and spinning and take half of the 'digital
problems' out of the occasion.

Better yet, try to hear a turntable (the above mentioned Debut will do for
starters) before you commit yourself - you might find you like it. (It's a
'quality' over 'quantity' thing...... ;-)

Now, stop trolling :-)
He wants to listen to music. Music currently comes on CD. End of
story.

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A certain Ronnie McKinley, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :

HMV and Virgin are where most people buy their music.

Could you define 'people' please.

The six billion walking talking things that inhabit the earth.

--

"Jokes mentioning ducks were considered particularly funny." - cnn.com

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"Chesney Christ" wrote in message
...
A certain Keith G, of uk.rec.audio "fame", writes :
It must be a damn unsatisfying experience
these days anyway to buy a modern album on vinyl, since start-to-finish
it'll have been recorded and produced on all-digital equipment.


Nah, all my Ry Cooders are like that and I love 'em....

I think you've got me wrong on the digital front - I've got probably over
6,000 digital pix and 10,451 MP3s on this machine (and its networked
'mirror'). It's just that I vastly prefer vinyl to CDs.....

The data that comes off your CD will be identical to the data that was
output by the mastering machine, so there is no good reason for this.



You still don't 'get it', do you? Whether or not the sound of an LP is
identical to the sodding mastertape or not I still 'prefer' it. Whatever
gets added (or taken away) by the 'vinylisation' process only enhances the
music IMO. If you find that a) hard to take, b) hard to believe, then it's
*your* problem. My preference for vinyl evolved because I *had* a number of
CDs (still well over 300 of 'em kicking about the place) - not because I
didn't have any......

Perhaps it will help you grasp 'strange concept' this if I mention that I
recently said I even prefer a CD rip of the vinyl to the original 'same'
CD.......

(As others have said, it ain't what a CD's 'got' that makes them ****e -
it's what they 'lack'........)



(and completely unmeasurable on a CD player).

No, 'jitter' is the bane of all CDPs.....

Jitter is another one of those words that people who think they're
audiophiles don't really understand. That hasn't been helped of course
by engineers who use the same word to describe several different
phenomena.


Since I'm neither one, I'll take it you mean someone else. Otherwise, scrute
this http://www.eyecote.com/qc/jitter.htm to get yourself started on a
fairly complex (but not rocket science) topic - I ain't interested.