On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:13:18 GMT, "Mark D. Zacharias"
wrote:

Let me put it this way:

1. Wouldn't you rather have a nice CD player than a piece of crap?
2. Don't you suppose there's at least a chance the better built CD player
might sound better?
3. Don't you suppose a high-quality external DAC might possibly sound better
than the cheapest possible 1-chip DAC section of of the cheapest built CD
players in the world (which is exactly what this Chinese stuff is, for the
most part) ?


Let me put it this way:

You feel that expensive MUST be better.

You have forgotten that CD players, from the cheapest to the most
esoteric, tend to use the same basic mechanism, bought in from the
same supplier.