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Originally Posted by Audio_Empire

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Trevor Wilson wrote:

On 11/28/2012 9:24 AM, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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On 11/24/2012 2:57 AM, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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I had a chance recently to audition, in my own system, the original
Sony
CDP-101 CD player. Boy is it god-awful sounding! Screachy highs, no
soundstage, in other words, downright fatiguing to listen to. It is,
however, built like a tank.

**I keep a CDP101 for people who imagine that all CD players sound the
same. It was, indeed, a shocker.

Absolute proof some people don't know how to maintain legacy equipment so
that it works and sounds as good as new.

**Fortunately, my business is service to audio equipment. I have the
service data, the techniques and test equipment to keep old CD players
(and most other audio equipment) meeting their original specs for many
years. Over the years, I've repaired several dozen CDP101 players. As a
consequence, I have built up a reasonable stock of the odd-ball parts
required for this model.


I have a CDP 101 that meets original spec and sounds great!

**I have a CDP101 that meets it's original specs (I use Sony test discs
and Pierre Verany test discs to verify Red Book performance) and it does
not approach the sound of a quality player like the Marantz CD80.

Since every sound quality problem has a measurable flaw at the bottom of it,
and since you claim that you have done thorough measurements of both
players, please explain your subjective opinons with the objective data that
you have.

**I cannot. The CDP101 meets (exceeds, actually) Red Book standards. It
meets it's own specs, as per the service manual. The Marantz CD80 does
likewise. I can't explain the audible differences that I (and 3 others)
heard during blind tests.

Have you acquired a Marantz CD80 to perform your own listening tests?


Since I have my own data, we'll see exactly how well you restored the CDP
101!

**Like I said: Refer to the published specs.

Since my opinion of the CDP-101 is essentially the same as yours, and
since someone else also made a similar observation about the CDP-101's
sound and add to that the fact that it was reviewed by several magazines
at the time as being of an audio quality that did not bode well for the
future of CD as an audiophile format, I'd say that the preponderance of
evidence suggests that the Sony CDP-101 was not a very good-sounding
player. I'm not sure what it says about the two posters to this NG who
insist that the CDP-101 sounds fine.

Hello Audio Empire,

I think the 16 bit DAC feature of this model may not be a good feature for SONY while designing the product. What do you think, if this will be a 14 bit encoding then it may sounds well?