[Carlo Centemeri]

Hello everybody,
I don't know if this is the right group where to post in, but I try
anyway.

I have the following situation: a commercial CD, which is playing a in
a very different way from CD player to CD player. From the symptoms
(slight detuning on high voice frequencies, occasional saturations) I
am supposing that the downgrading from the original 24 bit of the
master to the 16 bit of the CD has been done in a very bad way (and so
bits have been truncated, without doing a real dithering).
(I've had access to the original 24bit recording master and the
aforementioned problems do not exist at all)

My questions a
1. since the performance on various Hi-Fi equipments are QUITE
different, do you think possible that a D/A converter - always talking
about common commercial products, not about audiophiles or hi-end cd
players - can have such different performances in recostructing?
2. apart from a possible bad reconversion of the 24 bit master, which
could be the causes of possible harmonic distorsions/saturations and
similar stuff?

Thank you

Carlo