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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

Who Knows...

If this dirty secret becomes common knowledge, someone will design a transport that will play "right" no matter how one accesses the tracks... (I think the Wadia 7 might actually do that. Could be why I've thought for a long time the Wadia 7/9 was the best Redbook rig out there.) If nothing else in the interim, it may halt the "merry-go-round" people have been having with their digital rigs. (This could also short-circuit the quest for high-rez formats. Maybe the late Gabe Wiener was right afterall- Until his death, he had always contended that the Redbook standard was adequate for high-end audio reproduction. This revelation could also explain the vehement disagreement I had with him in that regard.)

The sonic improvement is definitely there. I have never gone through CDs where I've listened to entire songs that I've previously brushed aside... I mean for the first time, I've *enjoyed* Christoph von Dohnanyi's Schumann 1st Symphony... (It seems like the effect is most-profound with *older* CDs and large-scale orchestral CDs.)



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