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Why does a Sony PlayStation sound good to me?

Okay I bought a couple of the Sony play stations with the rca audio outputs and hooked one up.First impression was not very good. Not detailed like my other CD players but left it on for a couple of days and am really enjoying the sound. It does sound more like an lp to me. I know the highs and lows are rolled off some and the build quality is poor but I like the sound. I now want a better quality more reliable CD player that sounds more like this. Especially for my CDs that are not recorded or transferred to digital as well. I'm happy to use this as an additional CD player but was thinking maybe Rega has a sound similar from some of the threads I have read. Sometimes I think welcome the soul of the music with too much precise details. Any suggestions on a different CD player?
dylanfan

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mikirob
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Dylanfan,
I really like the sound of the original PlayStation 1 (1001) with RCAs. You can improve the sound further without subtracting what you like about it by adding the Furutech power cord and inexpensive Belden 8402 interconnect. I did and love it.

Please read Jeff Day Blog on the PlayStation 1; Day wrote a article on it in Positive Feedback, beside the Blog write-up. These articles might help you with ideas to get the best out of the PlayStation. I've owned mine for a very long time and it is extremely enjoyable. Yes, very analogue like. Best, Rob
mikirob
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Dylanfan,
http://btpa.com/IC8402-XX.html Is the link to the Belden 8402 at Best-Tronics Professional Audio. Also btpa.com. Good luck, Rob
mikirob
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Dylanfan,
I'd trust your ears. Good system, too. Smart that you purchased the vintage Western Electric wire. Is it the WE 16 gauge, or some other gauge? The Western Electric has a fabulous synergy with the Belden 8402 I mentioned above. Best, Rob
mikirob
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What's missing with many digital systems is musicality. Often digital systems provide great musical artifacts, but lose the emotion of "real music." Tone, timbre, texture, color, fullness and weight and harmonic rightness is lacking in many mega-buck systems. I'm a musician, so is my Wife, Mom, Dad, and a number of Uncles. I like to joke: you are at a live performance, one member of the audience comments, "wow, Rob's guitar seems to lack resolution tonight and is he sounding transparent to you, Millie?" Millie replies, "not to me, Russ, plus they're not imaging well and I notice that drummer dropped a stick and it was not audible." Russ responds, "yeah, soundstage lacks depth as well; at least the tone is right..." Best, Rob
mikirob
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Dylanfan,
Go to Jeff Day's Blog, jeffsplace.me; he has it listed there on the Western Electric write up on Yazaki-san and Belden. Best Rob
mikirob
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