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Default Killer CD player

dizzy wrote:

Trevor Wilson wrote:

I've been mucking about with an absolute honey of a CD player for a few
days. A Harman Kardon HD970. A real giant-killer for RRP AUS$599.00.
Highly recommended. Very detailed, very quiet (quieter than my test
equipment, in fact) and, IMO, extremely well priced. It will accept the
output of a transport, or it can be used as a transport on it's own
(though why you'd bother, I don't know). The DAC in this thing will
comprehensively clobber any surround sound reciever I know of. In fact,
it is clearly superior to pretty much anything I've used in my system
recently.

If you need a high end player, you would do worse than listening to this
puppy. Mind blowing value for money, IMO.


How is the FF/REW function? Fairly quick and fast (like the old CD
players), or like a DVD player (slow and "burpy")?


No answer for me. 8(