🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 06:14:09 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton
<patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote:

>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 12:38:12 -0500, dave weil <dweil2@bellsouth.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:21:54 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton
>><patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 06:20:58 -0500, dave weil <dweil2@bellsouth.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 16:47:17 +0000 (UTC), Stewart Pinkerton
>>>><patent3@dircon.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Nowadays, they mostly don't. Most modern R&D in amps and CD players is
>>>>>biased towards cost reduction. That's why my 'Chinky cheapy' Pioneer
>>>>>DV-575A will play any kind of silver disc while providing sound
>>>>>quality identical to that of a SOTA 'audiophile brand' CD player
>>>>
>>>>Care to provide the dbt details that supports your statement?
>>>
>>>Same protocol as always, and compared with a Meridian 588.
>>
>>So, when you said "*a* SOTA 'audiophile brand' CD player", you were
>>speaking only of the Meridian, not any other player, right? It sounded
>>as if you were speaking "generally".
>
>Nice try, but no cigar. I've compared numerous 'audiophile' players to
>the Sony in the last five years, and the only one that sounded
>different was the Audio Note - which is *seriously* broken! Even a
>Naim CDX (IIRC) didn't sound different, although I have previously
>heard Naims which were also somewhat broken in an attempt to sound
>different from the 'common herd'. Having innards which are invariably
>at least five years behind the mass market doesn't help, of course...

OK, dbt details please. 

BTW, what do you mean by "nice try but no cigar"? I asked you for
details and you named only one player. So I was right that you WERE
speaking generally.