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Article #249Re: Any Sony CD Guru out there?
From: Stewart Pinkerton
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:58
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:58
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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:39:43 +0200, Sander deWaal <nospam@wanadoo.nl> wrote: >"Arny Krueger" <arnyk@hotpop.com> said: > >>> ** You're paying for what you get. > >>Not at all. A lot of the $kilobuck players have the same >>operational guts as the $200 players. > >Examples please? The Mark Levinson 31.5 'Reference' transport cost $10,000, but at its heart is a standard Philips CDM 12 CD-ROM mechanism, OEM cost less than $50 including all associated electronics. Similarly, the original Meridian 800 series used about $20 worth of cheap plastic CD-ROM drive, without even a fancy casing, at the heart of a $15,000 unit. Why? Because as the Meridian engineers pointed out, that's all you need! Of course, their marketing boys kicked in, and you can now buy an 800 series DVD unit in beautiful alloy and glass casework for $20,000, or a 'dedicated' G98 CD transport for $6,500. Doesn't work any better than the old plastic CD-ROM, but sure looks pretty................... -- Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering
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