Are all CD players really equal?

[manicm]

I must confess my cardinal sin for buying expensive USB cable from *Chord and their speaker wiring for networking the walled terminal plugs in my lounge setup and also got lengths of AudioQuest cabling but these days, I can get the same quality for much less on AliExpress! 🙂

*Chord speaker cables have extra layers of insulation, which are ideal for long lengths.

I'm the same, used to get Chord cabling, now into Audioquest because I was happy with their HDMI cables, and then their optical and RCA ones, and also due to easier availability.

I know it may be all placebo etc etc, but it just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling without emptying the wallet.

 

[abacus]

I'm the same, used to get Chord cabling, now into Audioquest because I was happy with their HDMI cables, and then their optical and RCA ones, and also due to easier availability.

I know it may be all placebo etc etc, but it just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling without emptying the wallet.

Nothing wrong with that.

Bill

 

[manicm]

NO THEY ARE NOT.

Is this not one of the most beautiful players out there? Behold the new Advance Paris X-CD9, and not at a crazy price either. CDs are back baby!

https://www.advanceparis.com/en/product/x-cd9/

Steve Guttenberg has just reviewed it.

 

[Al ears]

NO THEY ARE NOT.

Is this not one of the most beautiful players out there? Behold the new Advance Paris X-CD9, and not at a crazy price either. CDs are back baby!

https://www.advanceparis.com/en/product/x-cd9/

Steve Guttenberg has just reviewed it.

Correct.
The whole idea that they were all equal in the first place is clearly wrong.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

NO THEY ARE NOT.

Is this not one of the most beautiful players out there? Behold the new Advance Paris X-CD9, and not at a crazy price either. CDs are back baby!

https://www.advanceparis.com/en/product/x-cd9/

Steve Guttenberg has just reviewed it.

Well that does nothing to explain why they're not. Typing in block capitals makes people trust you less.

 

[manicm]

Well that does nothing to explain why they're not. Typing in block capitals makes people trust you less.

Products are built to a price with compromises made in a way the manufacturer believes to be most effective.

 

[Al ears]

Well that does nothing to explain why they're not. Typing in block capitals makes people trust you less.

He doesn't have to explain why they are not.
The original post asked for an opinion.
Can you absolutely prove they are?
I very much doubt it, it's simply your opinion.
Which is fine as everyone has one.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

Products are built to a price with compromises made in a way the manufacturer believes to be most effective.

And they affect what we hear how? The measurements indicate to us that they do not affect what we can hear.

 

[ToppingSMSL]

He doesn't have to explain why they are not.
The original post asked for an opinion.
Can you absolutely prove they are?
I very much doubt it, it's simply your opinion.
Which is fine as everyone has one.

Opinion should be based on some fragment of reality. Typing in block capitals isn't a good look when you can't back up what you say.

 

[Friesiansam]

Opinion should be based on some fragment of reality.

Doesn't stop you, does it?

 

[davidf]

Don't tell me, all CD players sound the same because they've got DACs in them, and all DACs sound the same....

 

[manicm]

Opinion should be based on some fragment of reality. Typing in block capitals isn't a good look when you can't back up what you say.

My caps were just tongue in cheek.

 

[Al ears]

Don't tell me, all CD players sound the same because they've got DACs in them, and all DACs sound the same....

You got it.....
Unfortunately the question was 'are all CD players really equal?'
Without any supporting evidence to prove they ever were it surprises me the number of people that responded.