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Price Paid:
$600.00
from Deet's sound room Summary:
I have listened to this new cd25.2 for more than 4 days now and aready it is begining run wide open although electrontransmigration may still be incompleate,means It is still getting better and better.This is a honest review and my offend some of the thinner skined tubes only snobs,but i'm really ok with that.The CD25.2 is a winner right out of the box! That is after digarding the supplyed audio cables and replacing them with a solid silver cable,This player really benifits from them.I switched several high end cables and found White Zombie Audio's El Chupacabra cables to be the clear winner when evaluating detail,tonal,spacial differances.The best example of what this player can do came from a 1956 Verve recording mastered to c.d. format and very well done I might add.Ella F. and Louis A. I've heard this recording alot and for the first time I could actualy hear there voices reach the walls,floor and a low ceiling the tonal brighness of the wooden floor.This was something new I hadn't heard before.You see things where done very simple back then 2 singers often shared 1 mic while the other would be placed in the middle of the room to pick up the drums,base and piano. The timeing has to be right on to give this kind of soundstage.You could even hear the reed in Loui's trumpit vibrate and sizzle! even with a shared mic you could easily make out brushes on the snare and hear fingers on the bass! I really now know what people mean when they say you can hear the room it is deep but not very wide with low ceilings imaging was outstanding for such a old recording.This player is full of life not dull at all.Vibrato is rich and full to the next snap of a string or fall of a key..the hair stands up on the back of your neck and goose bumps raise up on your arms!It is very flat accross the freq. curve is much like a streight line that bows slightly in the middle .Giving the a slight advantage to the midrange.SWEET! and not a tube in it ,you don't have to break in 6 to 10 sets of tubes to get the set that sounds right,It comes that way right out of the box! you don't have to let it run for 45min. to get it warm enough to sound it's best and it dosen't cost thousends of dollers so I guess you will just have to spend what you saved on more c.d.'s! and it dosen't sound overly cold either but not as warm as tubes ,One glass of wine and you won't notice the slight differance any way!
Build construction is rugged,both player and remote. player is almost silent operation,And guess what when go to a previous track,lets say from track 6 to 5 you don't have to click twice! It won't restart the track your allready on! Love it! The buttons on the remote are a little small but they are rased so it really is'ent a problem for most of us.It dose not look cheap either as the top cover is very heavy aluminum and very well crafted.This is solid state at it's best no inagraded crap on a cheap board but top quality all the way! WAY TO GO!!ROY HALL!!
THIS CD PLAYER IS UNDER PRICED COMPAIRED TO IT'S COMPITION! Strengths:
tHE WHOLE PACKIGE IS STRONG AFTER YOU PITCH OUT THE CHEAP INTERCONECTS. Weaknesses:
NONE AT THIS PRICE. Similar Products Used:
TOO MENNY TO LIST.
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