Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site hou5d.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!hou5h!hou5a!hou5d!mat From: mat@hou5d.UUCP (M Terribile) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Re: CD tutorial by Rogers Re: Warning technical stuff follows Message-ID: <829@hou5d.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 14:42:28 EST Article-I.D.: hou5d.829 Posted: Sat Feb 18 14:42:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 03:46:20 EST References: <1538@tekig1.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 26 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 hou5d!mat