On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:27:45 +0000, Ronnie McKinley
wrote:

In uk.rec.audio Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 20:50:25 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:

"Ronnie McKinley" wrote

Go on then, I'll bite - wossit sound like? (A *very* quick Google came up
with mostly very good reviews, but there was the odd ****e comment - as
usual!)

Sounds like? sounds like the nearest thing a CDP can come to
sounding like a turntable ;)

Hmmm.......

(That'd be a 'first' then! ;-)

**** - I knew Naims were bad CD players, but I didn't think they were
*that* bad! :-)

As you very well know that is NOT the general consensus. Some on the negative
side may view the CDX can be a little aggressive at times, but this, in many
cases, can be down to system matching. Personally I didn't find this CDX to
be overly aggressive, but it certainly grabbed my attention ;)

Anyways, tell me about HDCD. In your opinion are the discs worth seeking out
or just "snake-oil" marketing?

(Didn't realize I already had a few HDCD discs in my music collection until
the LED on the Naim CDP read the discs as HDCD)

They were an interesting sideroad that seemed to come to a dead end.
While they're technically interesting, I can't say that I've noticed
any actual improvement in sound quality. YMMV, as I've only heard a
few of them. The best thing HDCD ever did was give us the excellent
PM100 digital filter - especially if you disable the
licensing-required 6dB attenuation of 'Red Book' CD......
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering