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In Reply to: RE: Do new cd players sound better than high end scd players of 10 yrs ago. posted by fantja on December 20, 2014 at 09:23:57:
You are most welcome. Of course what we did at T.A.V.E.S. does not prove anything past the fact that we proved that with some effort CD's can still entertain at a very high level. What magazine reviewers have to say is their own opinion. I will say that we had a very busy room and that a lot of visitors came back multiple times over the weekend. By Friday noon of the show we started having comments of best sound or one of the best sounding rooms at show and that persisted for the weekend. On Sunday we had a lot of exhibitors come in for a listen and that is always a very good sign. So I think that we were able to generate a lot of buzz.
I invested about four hours of modification time into the Sony DVD player that we used plus the cost of my parts. The Sony DVD player was an entry level DVD which was a factory rebuild that I bought new with warranty for all of $22.50. I think that is pretty good value. I compared a number of 24 bit 96KHz players against 24 bit 196 KHz players and the extra sampling rate helps just as would be expected with very controlled and articulate bass. The New Toshiba I got is actually a five year old design (all DVD players are old designs) which was released with new higher sampling rate dac's this year. None of the majors is spending much on DVD as they would all like to drop them and just make Bluray. Interestingly I have not yet found an inexpensive Bluray that I like as much as the DVD players when playing CD's. Trust your ears.
The other day I picked up a blue and a green Sharpie I colored in the clear centre section of some CD disks, blue on the label side green on the playing side then on the top label side I made a diffraction grate by drawing radial lines alternating blue and then green all the way around the disk, this has a very nice affect upon the sound of a CD. So now I am looking to find a Cyan LED (480 nm) to use to flood the underside of the disk. I used to do this mod with a green LED but now LED's which are close to 480 nm (light blue)are available so I will find some and install one on my player. Best regards Moray James.
moray james
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