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I understand your logic, but there's a hitch. Or two.

"Have you ever heard even a second of anything on a CD that sounded amazingly good?"

I've heard seconds on end. Minutes. An hour or two even, and off very different discs. But here's the trick.

It had nothing to do with filters or the various commercial realizations based upon shared erroneous assumptions or even the recordings themselves, horrid as some may be.

One device and one alone (in my experience) transforms the CD into quality sound, the Memory Player from Nova Physics. The review linked below says it well for me, but every other review so far agrees. The experience, to repeat, is transformative.

While I have achieved a certain reputation as an opponent of CD sound, that was CD sound then , not now. You must read a column I wrote some years ago called "The Numbers Game". It begins:

In a way really it was a blessing that early digital sound sucked. Without that impetus the enormous progress in audio during the past two decades might never have happened—or would have occurred more slowly. For out of that bleak, despairing era of expansionist digital hegemony, when any mitigation of its frozen-in-amber numerics seemed an impossibility, several realizations emerged that might otherwise have eluded us: The fine art of playback; the resurrected glory of the LP; the fallibility of audio "professionals" and academics; and our own susceptibility to delivered opinion.

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue8/diaries.htm

On the second topic: "I would like to e-mail you a sample of a 'digital recording' in CD format, and have you listen to it with good headphones first and then your system. I would be curious what you thought of the sound." Unfortunately (for the experiment) I abhor headphones and have no means to record a download. Other than that... I enjoy the play.

clark


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