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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."

"Wiliness" does not connote honest appraisal.

Whine, whine, whine.