[net.audio] $$ for CD players

mike@brl-tgr.ARPA (Michael John Muuss <mike>) (11/06/84)

Well, I spent $1300 for my NEC 803 CD player.
It has been worth every penny.

I selected the NEC by auditioning every CD player I could find
in Maryland and New York city, and the sound was clearly superior
to EVERY OTHER player at the time (last Christmas).
As it cost less than my turntable, I considered it a bargain.

The secret:  the 4x digital sample replication, with digital
filtering, and running the DACs at 176.4 Khz, enabling the use
of minimal analog low-pass filtering, resulting in no significant
phase distortion or high end "hash".

Other players (Yamaha, Revox) have started doing 2x sample replication,
with good results, but so far nothing compares to the NEC.

You get what you pay for.
	-Mike Muuss
	 <Mike@BRL>
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dsj@alice.UUCP () (11/10/84)

The claim that the REVOX uses 2x oversampling is incorrect.
Like the NEC (and the Phillips, Magnavox, Meridian, Mission) it
uses 4x.  I agree that the sound of 4x is superior to that
of 2x, at least based on my comparisons of Yamaha CD-X1 versus
Revox.  Revox versus NEC was a draw.

David Johnson   AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill)

herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong, Computing Services) (11/10/84)

I may be wrong, but doesn't the Meridian CD player have a 4x oversampling
rate as well?  It's a modified Phillips player with a lot of the analog
section replaced.

Herb Chong...

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