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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD players
Message-ID: <3804@alice.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 15:31:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 15:31:51 1985
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> Just a few days
> ago we got together three CD players:
> 
> 	NEC (4x Oversampling, one of the early models)....$1400
> 	Technics SLP-7 (we have about eight bought when they price
> 		plummetted to $300)			  $ 300
> 	Meridian (2x oversampling, MAGNAVOX with souped up analog
> 		circuit)				  $ 600

> Each one of these DEC's sounds different.  Noticeably the TECHNICS
> has a brighter EQ than the Meridian, which is also different than
> the NEC.

Interesting.  Can you tell us: (a) what precautions you took to
match the levels of the three players accurately, and (b) whether
or not the percieved differences remained when the listeners did
not know in advance which machine they were hearing?