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Hifi Choice Oct 2003 Issue – Jimmy’s Tweaks #13

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Handy Hints from Jimmy Hughes – Hi Fi’s Super Tweaker

On page 13, Hifi Choice resident sound guru highlighted a serious problem that is prevalent on all optical-disc digital players.

“Here’s a strange one. For some reason which I’ve been as yet unable to fathom, virtually all CD players (irrespective of make, cost, or vintage) sound best when you select a track from ‘stop’ and go straight to it. Using either forward or reverse Search, or pressing and releasing ‘Pause’, seems to take a little of the brilliance and freshness from the sound.” He then went on to suggest some testing procedures.

This more or less confirms the existence of the problem that I have often spoken about. Although I have found that the best sound can be obtained by selecting a track from ‘Stop’ position, let the track commence playing for 12 seconds and then repeat the track using the ‘Skip’ backwards key.

See previous posts:

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.pl?forum=hirez&n=134771&highlight=Downside&session=

To date, I have tested close to about 50 players, both vintage and recently released. Here’s a short list of currently available players found to have this problem:

ACCUPHASE DP-85
ARCAM DiVA CD82T
ARCAM DiVA CD73T
ARCAM DiVA CD93T
ATOLL CD100
AUDIOMECCA MEPHISTO II
AUDIO NOTE – ALL MODELS
BAT VK-D5SE
CEC TL-2
DENON DVD-2900
GAMUT CD1
KRELL STANDARD
MARANTZ SA-1
MARANTZ SA-14
MARANTZ DV-12S1
MARANTZ SA-8260
MERIDIEN 507
MUSICAL FIDELITY TRI-VISTA SACD
MUSICAL FIDELITY NU-VISTA
NAIM CDX
NAIM CDS
NAIM CD5
NAD C541I
PHILIPS SACD-1000
PHILIPS 963
PIONEER DV-755AI (With and without i.link connection to VSX-A10Ai)
REGA JUPITOR
REGA PLANET 2000
ROTEL RCD-02
SIMAUDIO MOON ECLIPSE
SONY SCD-1
SONY SCD-XA777ES
SONY SCD-XA333ES
SONY SCD-XE670
SONY DVP-NS999ES
SONY DVP-S9000ES
SONY DVP-NS905

Some experiments with hard-disk based system had come up with surprisingly good results which suggest that perhaps this problem can be solved with solid state digital storage devices. Will report back with more details.



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Topic - Hifi Choice Oct 2003 Issue – Jimmy’s Tweaks #13 - jeromelang 20:23:04 09/21/03 ( 13)