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yung@ihug.co.nz said:

>> You can easily get one that is just as good new, for the
>> price of the laser assembly.

>Can you please recommend some new players comparable to the XA7ES for
>$200USD?

Silly audiophile... Sameness is for 'borgs. <G>

I think you're simply unschooled in Kroologic. Kroologic is an amalgam of
religious devotion, envy, BorgSmugSnot, and paranoia. (Of course it has nothing
whatever in common with human logic.)

To understand the Krooborg's syllogism regarding your CD player, you have to
invert the precepts of your human-style logic and make various allowances for
Mr. Shit's agenda and mental infirmities. To start with, discard the notion that
how the unit sounds has anything to do with actually connecting it to your
system and listening. Rather, to determine how a unit "performs", the Krooborg
must fantasize about being blindfolded and tormented. Well, the torment isn't a
fantasy, it's reality. But for a Normal person, fantasy is permitted in order to
attain the 'borg state of mind.

Now what happens is the slavish devotion to the "fact" that "all
properly-designed CD appliances sound the same". This is a point of 'borgma and
not subject to interpretation, argumentation, or reality. The underlying premise
is that if Arnii Krooborg can't afford to own a superior device, it is known not
to be superior. (That's Kroologic.)

So for you to ask Mr. Shit to name other CD players that are just as good as the
Sony is tantamount to asking him to admit he only earns $16,000 per year,
molests children, and pimps out his poor wife. It won't happen.