"Fella" wrote in message
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It's not that something is superior or inferior. What it is, is that I
tried out a friends CD player in my system some months back, a Luxman
d600s. It was the most amazing player I've ever heard. It had a midrange
to simply die for. It had deep, profound bass, huge tall, dep and wide
soundstage. It was larger then life sound but it still somehow managed to
not offend me, as usually larger.then.life sound does.

Luxman does not have a reputation for making artficially colored SS gear,
and even the cheapest optical players have highly accurate sound, so Fella
your perceptions are probably based on your mental state when you were
listening to it, what you were listening to, and probable differences in
output level between the Luxman and your regular machine. Or perhaps your
regular machine has developed some audible flaw.

Fella, I can save you about $2900 - next time you evaluate optical players
do a level-matched, time-synched, bias controlled listening test, such as
the ones that Stewart Pinkerton has been talking about.

While John Atkinson has been whining about the prohibitive costs of doing
proper listening tests for his ragazine, for $2,900 you can do one heck of a
proper blind listening test!