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From: sdo@u1100a.UUCP (Scott Orshan)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: FISH BUYS CD PLAYER! (and so did I)
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Date: Wed, 28-Mar-84 14:15:09 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 28 14:15:09 1984
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Just a little support for CD buyers - I recently bought one for
$550 - it was a heavily discounted Marantz unit (made by Philips
with all their fancy error correction and digital filtering
and exceptional shock resistance, for those who might thumb their
noses at the Marantz name).  It lacks a lot of features, but the
sound is exceptional.  The only problem is finding disks that
are decent.  Unfortunately, the good ones seem to be classical,
and that's not my cup of bits.

Even for those who denounce the sound of the CD - how can you
beat the convenience and abilities of the players?  I've always
been so lazy that I wouldn't play a record because it involved
moving junk off the dust cover, cleaning a record, turning it
over, and having to listen to songs I didn't enjoy.

Now I just pop the disk in, select whichever tracks I want to
hear, in whatever order I want.  And no record noise.

There are record playing devices which have all these features.
I saw one in the DAK catalog that had dual linear tracking tonearms
to play both sides of a record.  I'll stick to my CD player, though.

And please, don't insult my intelligence and auditory system
by telling me what I do and don't hear (although some disks
seem to have some EPID - even parity induced distortion -
it sounds a little like two watermelons colliding underwater
three miles away. It's easily curable by covering the speakers
in my TV with Tupperware lids. :-)

		Scott Orshan
		Bell Communications Research
		201-981-3064
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