Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!hound!rfg From: rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD players Message-ID: <1186@hound.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-May-85 12:07:47 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.1186 Posted: Wed May 29 12:07:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 05:27:46 EDT References: <145@utflis.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 16 [] You ought to try making a few of those comparisons in people's homes where you what's going on in the test. You will probably discover, as many of us have, that when you know it is a fair comparison, when you know where all the wires go and what they do, when you know what is and isn't being done to each element, that then all the CD players, or most of them , sound alike. Sure it's possible to make one that sounds different. It's easy to screw up a simple design and add noise and various distortions. But there isn't any obvious advantage in doing so. Tail fins did not adversely affect the performance of cars, they just didn't improve them appreciably, but they did product differentiate. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg