In article , Woody
wrote:


Interesting observation.

For some reason I always thought my first 14-bit Philips (CD104?)
sounded better than anything I had later, and that the one that I
bought to replace it some years later (16-bit parallel) also sounded
better. That machine now sits with a very elderly lady we know and I
will reclaim it when she passes. Comparison with my present Marantz
CD5400SE will be interesting.

The first player I had was the first gen Marantz using the 14-bit x4
Philips chipset. Happy with it for about a decade. Although I did add some
'Toko' analogue low pass filters that rolled off at about 19 kHz as that
seemed to make the results sound nicer to my ears. Possibly because it cut
down the signal levels slightly going into the amp.

Jim

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