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From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD tutorial by Rogers  Re: Warning technical stuff follows
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Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 14:42:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 18 14:42:28 1984
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I have a Phillips (Magnavox) CD player -- the cheapest I could find at
$499 -- and I have noticed no unusual qualities in the sound.  On the
other hand, I should point out that on very quiet passages, the mechanical
noise of the player (about the volume of a cat breathing) is noticeable,
so the more interesting sonic effects may be getting overwhelmed.  The
motor is quietest at the beginning and end of a disk, and noisiest about
3/5 the way through a 40-minute recording.

The noise on the signal with nothing playing, or in a silent passage
is below the noise floor of my pre-amp.  The pre-amp is spec'd at 86 dB
below a reference input of (I think) 1 mV, so things are pretty quiet.

My machine is the Magnavox top-loader, and I am not sure if it has the
filtering scheme that has gotten so much discussion here.  I have heard
at audiophile salesman at Tower Records (check this place out, by the way)
say that ``Phillips botched the digital filters''.   It IS very easy to use.

Incidentally, I have disks by Telarc, CBS, Denon, and DG and the Telarc disks
seem consistantly to be the best.  One Denon disk came in a German-language
case, but with a Japanese brochure!  I can eventually make sense of some of
the German, but I am have no hope on the Japanese.  All of them have good
disks, but only Telarc seems to avoid really botching the recording from
time to time.

					Mark Terribile
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