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RE: as it should ...

I don't agree that the CD format "took years to mature sonically".... The format itself was fine from the get-go, there has not been a lot of rigs out there that give satisfactory results.

In fact, due to the lack of satisfactory CD playback, I believe CDs later on were optimized for the compromised playback at large. But on a good rig, some of the best sounding CDs I've heard came out during the first decade of production.

I also think the best CD playback was from the "20-bit 8x oversampling" era of the 1990s. But I haven't heard the really recent gear, which may be vastly improved relative to the products of just a few years ago.


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