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In Reply to: Red Book Riddle Solved posted by J. Phelan on July 14, 2009 at 00:06:39:
"To be sure, advancements in playback have been very real over the past two decades."
Well, I'd say ye olde TDA1541 chips were better than anything around nowadays which is why the likes of Zanden and AMR are universally praised, and the older Philips swing-arm transports were a quality alternative to TEACs VRDS mechanism when now there is none, but I would agree that the technology has improved over the years so that the aforementioned players which use these chips now wring far more of the potential from these older chips than previously; shame there's no more CDM1 transports around.
As you note however, CD has all the resolution and dynamic range that 99% of recordings need, and in fact the few JVC XRCDs I own are so resolving and dynamic that they are exactly as fatiguing as the DVD-As I used to listen to.
Too much emphasis is put on resolution when even at a live, unamplified performance, unless you are sat next to the performer detail is lost and low level noise influences what reaches your ears.
CD done right is natural, involving, highly resolving and musical, and certainly leaves very little open to criticism to my ears at least.
SACD may be an option for those who listen to classical and there are some great players out there and also great DSD recordings, but all too often we see listeners comparing CD to SACD on the same player only to conclude that CD is poor, when in reality it is the CD replay of the SACD player which is poor.
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Best Regards,
Chris Redmond.
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