On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:39:46 -0700, "Les" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Guess what, any music in the hands of a consumer is in the end
>converted to analog since standard speakers can not convert
>digital information. This means each piece in the system used to
>reproduce sound has an effect and you have almost proved my
>point. You are asking a standard JVC deck to compete with your
>NAD. It aint gonna happen.
>
>Try hooking up a JVC CD player in your system and compare that to your NAD..
>While HDCD units themselves should not make a difference on non HDCD CD they
>usually do for all the same reasons; the internal circuits are usually far
>superior on these decks than a standard one.
Not necessarily true. JVC has a reputation for having some of the best
"consumer-grade" CD and MD players on the market. In fact, for years JVC
was the only mass-market company to have one of their players listed in
Stereophile's "Recommended Components." My NAD CD player isn't
top-of-the-line by any means. Is there a difference in quality? Sure. Is
it the *real* reason I can hear differences? Not solely, and possibly not
at all. I do have a receiver that has its own D/A converter. Maybe
sometime I'll plug my MD player and my CD player into that, then run that
line to my "main" stereo, just so that both will be using the same D/A
converter.
But back to the real topic of this discussion, as I mentioned in my
initial message, the comparison I outlined was just *one* example of
situations where I can tell the difference between CD and MD. It's not
the only one. My CD portable sounds better than my MD portable (even
though the MD portable has a better headphone amp). Even on our JVC 9000
mini-system with PSB speakers (which uses the *same* D/A converter for CD
and MD), I can tell the difference. I was simply trying to provide one
example that would, to some extent, be a bit more methodologically sound
>The single largest difference folks are going to hear from MD to the next is
>the deck that was used to record it. This is not necessarily the ONLY
>difference but it is the largest difference. So, you can also try someone
>else's MD recorded on at least an ES machine to listen to the difference.
As I've said, I disagree. Simply because of the compression involved, the
CD and MD are going to be different. And as I've already mentioned, as
long as there *is* a difference, there are going to be some people who
can hear it. But (also as I've said before), this is really a silly
argument, because we all agree that the sound quality is excellent ;-)
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