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RE: Perfect Sound: "Science" not Marketing

"That's what I said, undetectable. That is the perfection that the original CD marketing hype claimed."

As andy19191 has mentioned it's a marketing slogan. I played a 1986 CD the other day, played just as well as the first day I bought it, that could also be construed as "perfect sound forever". Here, you are trying to cast the slogan in a light that suits your particular biases. I dare say that in the 80s that "perfect sound" as you postulate was not even on the mind on most consumers, getting a more durable medium (consistent after repeated plays_ for music was way more important and CD superiority in that respect was easily demonstratable.

At any rate, the Hi-Fi News (UK) published a letter from one Geoffrey Horn discussing a controlled DBT experiment performed by Meridian in early 80s and Brad Meyer's findings are consistent with the findings of the earlier experiment. In fact, the letter asked the rhetorical question, what has happened in the intervening 20 odd years.

Now does not suggest that all CD Players sound the same, DAC design permit a good deal of variability and strictly speaking high end is not about high fidelity therefore sound variability amongst different CDPs is certain, any person that doubts this should read thru' past issues of Hi-Fi World (UK) where they will immediately observe that the frequency response of modern CDPs is all over map.



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