jay@npois.UUCP (Anton Winteroak) (03/19/85)
Sometime soon I am going to by a CD player. I've been looking in audio shops, and reading occaissional trade journals. Generally the conclusion that I find is that there is no clear consensus about which is best. Advice seems to center on five brands being near the best. They are Revox, Sony, Phillips(Magnavox), Nakamichi, and Carver. Note that the last two are new entrants into the field, and their advocates seem to be basing recomendations on reputation. I have heard the Nakamichi (OMS-7) and it sounds pretty good, and is fairly resistant to mistracking when struck or bounced. It would mistrack if I picked it up and shook it gently, but horizontal taps had no effect unless I hit it pretty hard. The salesman was equally willing to sell me the Nak as the Carver and willing to feed me info about Carver's time lens, and Nak's special new method of digital filtering. If any of you have something real to say on the subject, please do. If not, I will asume that I cannot make a wrong choice amoung these five (and probably pick the Nakamichi). Another side light. The Carver salesman claims that the M1.5T amplifier has been redisigned, and that the new one doesn't change the state of your circuit breakers at low levels. Someone else was trying to sell me a more traditional power amp (Perreaux 5130 ?) from New Zealand as being cleaner sounding than the Carver. "If all you want to listen to is Rock and Roll, the Carver will be just fine, but for Classical, I think you'll find this is cleaner sounding." Is this bologna? Carver's specs make his look pretty good. Perhaps his whole problem was in the pre-amp. He had his 1.5T hooked up to a new smaller version of the holographic unit, and the NZ unit hooked up to it's native pre-amp. I have a question about pre-amps, but I'll post that seperately. ...!npois!jay Anton Winteroak
bhs@siemens.UUCP (03/21/85)
Nak is not introducing some new digital filtering scheme. They are merely implementing the same filtering scheme which Phillips (aka Magnavox) uses on all of their players. Quadruple oversampling is inherently superior to analog filtering. Also, the Phillips players are known to have one of the better drive mechanisms on the market, being quite tolerant of surface imperfections, as well as vibrations. So, for example, Revox seems to have incorporated the Phillips mechanism into their players. Bu the way, Magnavox players are built in Belgium on the same line as Phillips players are. Bernard H. Schwab Siemens RTL, Princeton, NJ