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Re: A candid exchange with John Atkinson:

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I will make 2 blanket statements on this subject: 1) almost without exception. DVD players make poor CD players (for technical reasons)


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Absolutely, the problem stems from the need to have clock circuits in the chassis to handle the video signals that are not related to the CD playback clock frequencies. The result is a slew of audio-band intermodulation products that contaminate the player's noise floor when it plays back CDs, reducing performance, in the worst case I have examined, to around 13 bits' worth of dynamic range.

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1. What about machines which allow the video circuitry to be turned off while playing CD's and have separate cuircuits?

2. Do we have a plethera of TIN EARS in the audio asylums?

3. Already "mods" have been introduced to the Toshiba 3950 to make it a "multi-hundred dollar audiophile piece" when users seem to be raving on its "out of the box" quality, with no break-in woes mentioned overall.

4. Will people ever be satisfyed unless the price and weight of a piece of equipment both are of a greand scale?

5. Will all those Toshiba 3950's all of a sudden start sounding "bad" to the ravers due to JA's statement?

What a can of worms.

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