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In Reply to: Not even close posted by Charles Hansen on July 16, 2009 at 19:09:07:
Actually, IIRC, the PMD-200 was introduced in 1999, not 1995. Therefore, it can be claimed that in 1995 ... "Since its introduction in 1995 the original PMD-100 HDCD digital filter software has been the choice of high-end digital audio designers for their most ambitious processors and players. This was no accident. Digital designers in most high-end companies recognized the unrivaled performance of the PMD-100."I can think of a number of players that used the 100, including Linn, Sim, ML, Cary, Spectral, EAD, Sonic Frontiers. At that time, many of those 100 based machines represented the best sounding digital players.
As for the 200, Linn, Sim & Cary used them sparingly. The original Sim Nova and the second gen. Eclipse used the 200, both truly excellent sounding players, with excellent transient response and natural hi-freq. content. Perhaps the most famous cutting-edge and amazing sounding CDP, the Linn CD12, started with the 100, but could also be purchased or upgraded to the 200 for a short time prior to its eventual retirement.
EDIT: Chord had something called the "Watts Transient Aligned Filter" and Linn used a 2-D-DSP algorithm to "shape" the sound. Don't now if these proprietary systems are related to the MP.
EDIT2: Correction - The otherwise excellent sounding Sim Nova did NOT use the PMD-200, I remember this because it was not an HDCD player, unlike the first and second gen. Eclipse.
TB1
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