hank alrich wrote:

That last one actually bit me in the butt. When we bought a second
player, a Philips changer, I bought it home and hooked it up to a pair
of Paradigm booksheklf speakers (Titans, I think - among those Dorsey
hates) driven by a Tandberg integrated unit. Something bothered me for
about a week. I could swear stuff was moving, horn attacks shifted as
they happend, etc. Eventually I made a call to tech info and was told
that player output the left and then the right sample. I could not
believe I heard that, but I did. I returned the Philips and bought a
Denon that doesn't do that. In the case of that particular Philips, it
was a problem. I found that ironic given Philip's role in the creation
of the format.

I think by the time the changers came out, Philips had stopped doing that.
The original 14-bit chipset did it, but I think the second-generation set
that came out around 1985 didn't.

More likely it was something else crappy about the converters, like uneven
response between the two channels, etc. Most converters on consumer gear
even today have enough different things wrong with them it's not worth
worrying which thing wrong is causing a given issue.
--scott

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