On 11 Mar 2006 18:58:53 GMT, Steven Sullivan wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
to 'perfect' by any reasonable standard.

But then there are the digiphiles that i suspect you think are getting
it wrong. forgot about them? I don't know any "vinylphiles' painting
their LPs green. There are didgphiles buying some very expensive gear
like belt drive tubed CD players. Do you think those digphiles are
"getting it right?"

They're not digiphiles, they're audiophools, there's a difference.
Real digiphiles know that none of the above do anything good to the
sound of CDs.

Moroever, as Scott conveniently fails to mention, those audiofools are in
almost every instance trying to get CDs to sound more like their beloved
*vinyl*.

Indeed. I have often wondered what technically inept and utterly
cynical clown ever came up with the idea of a belt-drive CD player,
and of increasing the output impedance by sticking a cathode follower
on the end of the existing output stage.

Of course, the real joke is that what's generally acknowledged as the
worlds's best turntable, the Rockport Sirius III, is direct drive! :-)

Naturally, Scott then says that he doesn't think the Sirius actually
is the best, he prefers the Forsell. How utterly predictable....

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