On 7/17/04 10:52 PM, in article IBlKc.106134$%_6.51857@attbi_s01,
"normanstrong" wrote:

"Rich.Andrews" wrote in message
news:qoSJc.88064$JR4.50240@attbi_s54...

Nousaine,

Are you asserting that WRT CDPs there is no audible difference
between any
of them or or you saying that low end players sound very much alike?

The chances of 2 CD players sounding bad--and alike--are very poor.
Things that sound bad usually sound bad in different ways. It's sort
of like the clock analogy: A man wants an accurate clock, but he has
no time standard to check them against. So he sets 5 clocks for the
exact same time and comes back a month later. 4 of the clocks read
the same within 5 seconds and the 5th one reads a minute fast. Would
he buy the 5th one on the theory that the other four each lost a
minute?

Ah, but does he have an accurate standard to be able to know if it is 4
clocks that are acuurate-ish and one really not accurate?

Buy an atomic clock receiver and be done with it! :-)