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From: dsj@rabbit.UUCP (David S. Johnson @ )
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Revox CD player
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Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 12:01:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 12:01:46 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 31-Aug-84 02:53:20 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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I have now had my Revox CD player for a week, and am very pleased
with the sound.  I have detected none of the supposed harshness
of CD through my ADS 910 speakers.  The image is also quite
3-dimensional on well recorded CD's (Telarc's for instance).
In short, I observe none of the supposed defects of digital
(and all the advantages).

I've also been surprised at how much I enjoy the ease and
speed of the machine's mechanical operation (no disc cleaning,
random access, immediate return to the beginning of a track
or skipping to the next, with maximum of 3 seconds cueing time).
The machine also comes with a test tone at maximum output,
which should help in setting volume levels so that tweeters
don't get blown.  My one reservation is in the accuracy of the
cueing, which is only plus or minus .5 seconds.  On discs where
the music starts to close to the 0 index point, this can occasionally
(and randomly) lead to clipping off the first sliver of the
music (This happened with all the players I auditioned - NEC, Yamaha,
so I suspect it's a universal problem). I can get around this using
the pause control by backing up a second, but its a minor
annoyance.  Anyone else had any experience with this?

Finally, of the 23 CD's I've bought or borrowed, I have never had
a mistracking or an audible defect.

David Johnson - AT&T Bell Laboratories