hgcjr@utastro.UUCP (Harold G. Corwin Jr.) (10/01/84)
(?)
Several audio netters have suggested that the rankings of
CD players that I posted a week or so ago could be strongly
influenced by poor headphone output circuits. This could be
so -- the headphone jacks on a lot of stereo gear have been
added as marketing gimmicks and have sound to match.
In order to check this out on at least some of my sample,
I listened to both the headphone jacks and the line output of
the Denon and the Sony 701ES players, the line output being
fed into Macintosh amps whose headphone jacks I then used
(glutton for punishment, aren't I?). There were no differences
in the sound for either player. Take it for what it's worth.
To hopefully help dispel the notion that I'm categori-
cally dumping on Sony and Technics because of their "mass-market"
names, I should point out that two recent acquisitions include
a Sony TC-FX210 cassette deck and a Technics SH-8055 equalizer/
analyzer. Both do what I want them to with sound acceptable to
me at the price that I wanted to pay. So does the CD player
that I eventually ended up with, the Yamaha CD-2. One man's
champagne ....
Finally, among the few CD's that I've heard, these are the
ones that I especially enjoy for their sonics:
Bax: Four Tone Poems (Chandos 8307)
Handel: Water Music (Erato ECD 88005)
Janacek: Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba (Supraphon 38C37-7056)
The Sheffield Drum and Track Record (Sheffield CD14/20)
This last one does not have quite the crisp clarity of the LP's,
but the mellow warmth of the (analog recorded) sound is charming
in its own gentle way.
Good listening!
Harold G. Corwin, Jr.
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