What makes a Cd player a Great cd player

This thread has become pretty funny.

It reminds me of when I had six fellow computer programmers and engineers come over because they wanted to hear my system.

Five were saying "Oh my Lord!" while one said that he couldn't hear a difference. We all looked at him because we figured that one of three things might have been going on in his mind.

1. He really couldn't hear the difference that everyone else heard.

2. He wasn't going to admit that there was a difference because he wasn't about to allocate any extra money to his HT/Stereo/Video Game system and that was his way of justifying it to himself.

3. He was not admitting that anything sounded better because he's preached forever that there's no difference in any stereo components.

Like TVAD said, if you don't want to believe that that a higher quality:

1. transport reduces translation errors
2. DAC decodes the 16 bit encoded data better
3. power supply reduces the noise floor and provides more dynamics
4. there a bunch more etc's

If you don't want or can't believe that these things make the kind of difference that gives it more value TO YOU, don't worry or think twice about it. Stick with your $1000.00 CD Player.

I don't understand why you asked us WHY when it seems that you really don't accept any REASONS WHY that your fellow Audiogoners are offering.

We don't care and are actually happy if you like your $1000.00 CD Player.

Chuck

Ddan6815,

I haven't read all of the posted comments, so forgive me me if this has been touched upon.

There is a problem, as you said, that when going from a good CD Player to a better one, it does have a tendency to bring to light the difference in recordings.

I used to and still get down when listening to a CD that just doesn't sound as good as it used to. The saving grace is that the well recorded CD's now sound much better.

It is a trade-off, that's for sure. One solution is to keep the older one along with the more expensive one. But to me that would be a pain in the rear.

Chuck

Mapman,

I don't blame anything for the recording.

In my personal situation, I use my music as a stress reliever at the end of the day.

I've found that the better recordings are more relaxing for me. That's why I look to buy imports, HDCDs, XRCDs and Blu-Spec CDs whenever possible, as well as MoFi and Rhyno over stock CDs.

They seem to be a better recording to my ears.