Recent content by Stuart83

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    Are all CD players really equal?

    👍 Good advice,It will be my future option. Honestly I don't know how more than fairly demoing to a clearly stated opinion in good fun devolved to sniping. I fully get why my goto at the local HIFI store said he avoids the forums despite his knowledge because of the arguing, I shouldn't of got...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    [ Is that what you tell her 🤣 As your bordering on the line of getting personal anyway, I thought a joke might clear the air
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    You keep going in circles 🤦 I'm unsure if it's to try and gain traction with people new to the thread who haven't read my prior messages or not so I will bulletin the finer points. (I'm not however "Trolling "which seems to be a very apt word to use through my prior posts to quote myself again)...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    Dude read the posts. It's making me 😬 Everything you say was more than covered yet your stuck reiterating meaningless things to a holistic blind test of a CD PLAYER against another CD PLAYER. I bid you good morning I'm in a rush but the CDP wouldnt be being tested if they where altered in ANY...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    I beggining to think you've read NONE of my post now 😂 Short of quoting myself (and I haven't the time at the minute) I did all the above AND more than ticking every hurdle you seem to want to throw Infront of a clean test without bias . I even used the Hegal remote to avoid identifying each...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    👍 However as per the other posts fully covering the non bias reasoning and fairness in testing culminating in the giving of my "opinion" and not feeling the need to defend myself, yet as I'm sure it's all in good fun so will further add- It is indeed an "Instantaneous" switching A to B using...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    👍I get your point, although on the contrary the CD 60 infact nestles in-between the CD 52 MK2 being the lowest at a standardised 2 V-rms and the CD 6007 having the highest output voltage 2.4 all within 0.2v of each other in a kinda tasty Marantz sandwich with the two budget players both new and...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    👍😁Talking missions I'm on restoring a pair of 763i to snug back up to the pioneer a400 and Marantz CD 52 MK2 CDP that took a long route of demoes and a more than a few in-between players of all kinds to finally get a noticeable, although subtle improvement I could say was actually there which...
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    Marantz CD6007 DAC question

    Have both a 6007 in the bedroom a very nice player imo and a CD 60 as my main CD player (I even have a 33yr old marantz CD 52 MK2), in which it's a hard push if not impossible to tell the 6007 and CD-52 apart for sound quality which is no bad thing, giving the CD52 is a very good sounding...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    Agreed I remember the days storage space was at such a premium and measured MB's. So it was a plain choice to make, more songs in a highly compressed lossy format whilst trying to ignore your hearing and believe that MP3 really did only get rid of things that was imperceptible to your ears, or...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    👍 Or the momentary muting we have all heard from time to time (some CDP are better at this than others) sometimes accompanied by that ticking sound of the player's servo and error correction systems working hard to compensate for the damage on that disc you left play side down for weeks 😂 by...
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    Are all CD players really equal?

    It's a road I went down (again) not long ago whilst upgrading which I posted on at the time going through quite a few. I'm not one for graphs and measurements other than for the obvious things like THD and the signal to noise ratio as seldom do they indicate anything useful unless you literally...
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    What's on your favourite album list?

    Your post resonates deeply with me especially the second paragraph. Free speech is part of what founded democracy yet we now delete it. In the interest of staying out of trouble I will leave the shared sentiment there, my having to leave it there just proves how far it's all gone🗯️ (I'd imagine...
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    What's on your favourite album list?

    It's "ne bother" as we say, I know what you mean about strangers staying strange in certain parts of England especially among the current climate it's makes me cry inside. Some people 😡 I still impulsively open doors (not just) for disabled, women and the old, the amount of times I've seen...
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    What's on your favourite album list?

    Thanks The journey isn't over (as said I consider hifi a journey not a destination) the Systemdeck iiv was fully serviced and updated with a Goldring E3 cartridge then left to gather yet more dust. Not to annoy a fan base I belong to after all but I've never found anything mythical about...