"Robert Morein" wrote in message

"J.Major" wrote in message
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Arny Krueger wrote:
"Pooh Bear"
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Arny Krueger wrote:

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Through a quirk of fate, I recently acquired an
operational CDP-101, the first CD player sold widely at
retail in the US, that I still occasionally use. AFAIK
it is 100% origional. It sounds no different from the
best-sounding modern players including my SACD/DVD
player. It even does a credible job of playing CD-Rs.

If you cannot ear any differences between a CDP-101 and
today's best digital
player tell us a lot about your total lack of
credibility concerning audio. It also tell us that we
should not give a damn about your opinion about hi-fi. I
have owned a Sony CDP-101 in 1984 and I could not stand
its harsh high (it was giving me headaches) so I sold it
after a bit more than a month.

At the time of the introduction of the CD, Denon had
been doing digital recording for about 10 years, and
Telarc had had been doing the same for 5 years.
Mainstream labels had been using digital recorders to
master commercial releases that were initially released
on LPs for about 4 years. The technology had been
around long enough and used often enough to be
relatively mature and sound good, if properly used.

I've been warning about Arny's presbycusis,
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/...ticlekey=24916,
for some time now. It's obvious; it's painful, and
tragically, Arny covers it up with a blustery, offensive
attitude.

What cover up? I still hear the absence of highs above 15 Khz, and pure
tones out to 20 KHz.

Arny, it's time for you to recuse yourself from
personal observations about audio quality.

Here's a news flash old man, sound quality is not all about the extreme high
end.

I suggest that
instead you concentrate on formalism, methodology, and
critique thereof. Age has no prejudice there.

As I pointed out in another post, the 19-40 year-olds that I mix with still
rely on me for the final word on equalization.

"youth and strength can always be beaten by age and wiliness."