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MINe 109 wrote:
In article ,
wrote:

MINe 109 wrote:
In article ,
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MINe 109 wrote:

I think my Arcam CD23 FMJ sounds better than my AMC CD8b,
although I
ascribe the difference to design, not to magic or "more
money."
Am I
wrong?

You might be. What part of the latter's design do you think is
subpar,
and how do you know that it is sufficiently subpar to be
audible?

I'd have to be a designer or engineer to make that kind of
analysis.

In that case, you're on shaky ground ascribing the difference to
"design," aren't you?

I assume pianos are built to different designs without knowing how to

build one.

Fair enough. But I think it is significant that most of the
participants here who are engineers seem to think that the design
differences between CD players tend not to have audible consequences. I
would trust their judgment over yours or mine.

I'd hate to be stuck with unsatisfactory gear because some engineer
somewhere doesn't think audible consequences possible. I find it more
reassuring when an engineer with a respectable audio track record points
out things that can go wrong, like the pro-audio guy who found that
cheap dvd players had clipped outputs due to poorly implemented DACs.

One selling point of the Arcam is the RingDAC, which was sourced from
dCS, who may be presumed to know something about design.

Stephen