Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-03-10 Thread cliveb
Mnyb wrote: The following would be interesting to do . Pop in some really old cd in your current system does it still sound horrible . Early CDs did not sound universally bad. One of the first CDs I bought was Pictures at an Exhibition on Telarc (Cleveland Orchestra, Maazel). It sounded

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-03-10 Thread Mnyb
cliveb wrote: Early CDs did not sound universally bad. One of the first CDs I bought was Pictures at an Exhibition on Telarc (Cleveland Orchestra, Maazel). It sounded fabulous back in the 1980s and still sounds fabulous today. My first CD player was a Philips 104 - which I believe was

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] CD's vs. vinyl

2015-03-10 Thread Daverz
Mnyb wrote: Pop in some really old cd in your current system does it still sound horrible . Dig up some really old CD player conect it to your current system does it still sounds as bad as remembered . There were definitely some really awful early digital recordings. Some of the DDD