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In Reply to: RE: Optimus CD-3400. I should never have got rid of it. I would have saved myself a lot of pain. Nt posted by fantja on August 07, 2016 at 15:46:47
I don't think it was as good as the hype, but at the RS sale price, it was a very good player for the money. I did not do any of the mods, because, with the price of the mods included, you would have been better off with a similarly priced Denon or Sony ES player, which also included a remote.
Dave
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I got mine on sale too, and agree with you, "a very good player for the money" is what it was, but nothing more than that. Edit: As an example, it was dull and rolled off compared to my JVC XL-Z1050TN player. And that included when running the 3400 with an external, higher current battery supply.The only reviewer I remember having the courage to point that out during the frenzy was the later burned at the stake, Corey Greenberg.
Sam Tellig seemed to be the main hype-maker for the 3400, but then he did that a lot, in my opinion.
Edits: 08/09/16
I am sure he knows what good sound "is" but he enjoyed the absurdity that the thing could sound as good as it did. I do not remember whether he went further out on the limb than that.
I used one for a car system and it worked just fine until it was stolen out of my car in NYC.
That's probably true, and I remember reading his review as somewhat tongue in cheek when he pondered if the 3400 was "Better than the Levinson?" which was a $25,000 two box CD player.
I can cut him some slack for having some fun, but he also did a frenzy whip with a B&K amp that was hand tweaked (bias increase?) for him by B&K, which made it sound better. Tellig admitted it in his review, so it wasn't a credibility issue, but B&K balked at doing the tweak for the masses (I'm guessing because of reliability issues).
So his review was essentially a "Here's a giant killer amp, but you can't get one like mine", which, for me anyway, put Tellig into the hype category.
My CD-3400 saw relatively little use, but just stopped working one day. I still have it in a box somewhere.
Generating hype was how Sam made his money. I don't ever remember him recommending something that was bad, but he did overpraise things. Sill, I generally found him entertaining and did buy somethings that he recommended, that I liked quite bit. I agreed with his premiss (at the time) that you did not have to spend the value of a car to get good sound. I still think you don't, but the market has polarized between dirt cheap and very expensive since then.
Dave
Good point!
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