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"A CD would have sounded the same." Good to know, but bland assertions are not proof. Besides...

...there's an immense body of uncontradicted evidence -- just read the hundreds of posts on Prophead and other AA boards -- that CD-Rs made from Redbook CDs sound quite a lot better. That raises the vexing issue, Which is the real CD?

Also, if one reads the literature, it appears that various CD players produce vastly different sounds. Which one is real?

Then we have the Memory Player (or equivalent, if any), which reinterprets the data off a Redbook CD and produces a sonic result (according to all reviewers thus far) superior to any other, even to the CD-R remakes.

So, again, which of those is the CD that "would have sounded the same"?

Even more to the point, which of the above does the aforesaid "bottleneck" sound like? Isn't that worth our knowing?

Had you not yielded to the temptation of "quick and easy comparisons", the above questions might have been addressed.

And then: "I realize you may still believe that the disc itself changes the sound, on the basis of your own unsupported perception." Again, even a casual perusal of these boards, or almost any audio forum, will show that I am hardly alone in my "perception", rather I have been joined by thousands.

"Anecdotal", you say? But what's the plural of "anecdote"? Data!

The rest -- "You always refuse such requests (skepticism is so unbecoming in one's acolytes, isn't it?), so there seems no point in discussing it." -- is beneath you, so I won't touch it except to explain to other readers that no "such requests" have been received at my place.

clark

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