[Arny Krueger]

"Rockinghorse Winner"
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* It may have been the liquor talking, but
Arny Krueger wrote:

"Audio Empire" wrote in
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One person might prefer "soft" while another might prefer that their
system
sound a bit "brighter". Just because one player sounds soft
and another sounds bright doesn't mean that either one
of them is defective, however.

If they sound different than at least one has failed to
be sonically transparent. Any CD player that fails to be
sonically transparent is either broken now or started
out that way.

I'm not one to try on different speaker cables searching
for the right one, because there are math-based reasons
why this is futile.

However, a CD player contains so many different
components and varying circuits in both the digital and
analog sections, that it would be unreasonable to suppose
that there would NOT be differences in the analog signal
that comes out of them.

You can suppose what you want, but you're talking to someone who has
actually done the corresponding hands-on homework.

Masters, Ian G 'Do All CD Players Sound the Same?' Stereo review, Jan 1986,
pg 50-57.

So have others:

http://www.matrixhifi.com/pruebasciegas.htm

Pholmann, Ken C. '6 Top CD Players: Can You Hear the Difference?' Stereo
Review, Dec 1988, pg 76-84.

Phollmann, Ken C. 'The New CD Players: Can You Hear the Difference?' Stereo
Review, Oct 1990, pg 60-67.

CD Player Comparison, The Sensible Sound, # 75, Jun/Jul 1999.

CD Player Comparison, The Sensible Sound, # 74, Apr/May 1999