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Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
If I remember correctly, there were two ways to skin the D/A cat, Philips and Sony. I don't remember
the details but I do remember those players that used the Philips method (Philips, Magnavox, Teac)
sounded best to my ears. Early Sony and Technics players sounded awful to me. The first really great
sounding player I heard was made by a French company but used a Philips D-A chip and a Philips drive
(which was made using lubricant the gummed up over time and therefore did not have a very long or
happy life). The French player, forgot the company's name, was owned by a friend who's an audio
engineer with excellent ears. He opened it up for me and showed me that it had a massive power
supply and a discrete transistor output stage, which explained the good sound quality at least in
part. My mother has a really great-sounding Philips unit, it was their top-line player in 1990.
Still sounds fantastic and works well too. Nowadays, I play most CD's back through my DAW in the
studio, which has a Plextor drive and CardDeluxe D-A. Sounds leagues better than early players but I
must say that many but not all decent-grade DVD players have good CD playback for a very reasonable
price. I have two Toshiba players that sound very good with CD's, although not so much with DVD's.
On the other hand, my Marantz multi-format player sounds great with DVD and SACD but not so good
with CD audio. Go figure.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Durenberger" <Mark4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
And didn't the early "production-line" machines share a common D/A converter, doing some fancy
fast switching between channels? Or is that more Urban Legend?
Mark Durenberger
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Fine" <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Preservation media WAS: Cataloguing still :-)
I remember my first contact with Compact discs was late 1982, a demo at a Tech Hifi store in White
Plains NY. It was about as impressive as most digital-recorded LPs released up to that point, in
other words not very.