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From: jeh@dcs.simpact.com
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Subject: Re: bitstream CD players
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Date: 11 Jul 90 12:54:42 GMT
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In article <4940@uwm.edu>, mead!rubin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Daniel Rubin) writes:
> I read a couple of articles in Stereo Review's Compact Disk Guide Summer '90
> all about bit stream CD players.  In one review of a new Techquinces (I do 
> not know the correct spelling ) 
				"Technics".  
>                                 CD player using the MASH bit stream system
> the reviewer said it beats the pants off of most any CD player out today.
> The thing lists for only $220.

I find it quite amusing that SR would publish such a statement, as they've long
held to the "if it measures the same it must sound the same" credo.  And, of
course, all CD players measure the same, or at least close enough that we
shouldn't (by this thinking) be able to hear the difference.  

Of course, if SR came out and said "these new 1-bit decoders don't make a 
bit of difference, and neither did oversampling nor anything else", they'd
have to tell us that there was no point in replacing our Sony CDP-101's and
Magnavox 2041's... and SR's advertisers wouldn't like that!  

Yep.  All CD players sound the same.  And this year's models are better than
ever.  Right.  

	--- Jamie Hanrahan, Simpact Associates, San Diego CA
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