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Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

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! :-)
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To be fair, most belt-drive TT fans, at ones who I know, argue that BD
is the most cost efficient way to get good sound. The argument isn't
that BD is the ONLY way to get good sound. They would argue that it
costs $60-some-thousand to get the Rockport sound in DD, but excellent
TT sound can be had for far less with BD. Or looking at it another way,
to get a DD that sounds as good as my $1000 (TT, arm, cartridge) BD
Clearaudio would cost much more than $1000. It's the old Goldmund vs.
VPI TNT (for example) argument.