CDS...CDs
Posted by: Phil Barry on 20 April 2002
This may actually be a padded cell thread.
When I first heard the CDS(1), I heard the first CD player that I really LIKED. I bought one last July. Before then I used, first, a Philips CD880, then a Sony X77ES (which J. Gordon Holt - founder of Stereophile and editor/publisher when it was a great mag - liked a lot).
I have a CD of Ella Fitzgerald, 'The Best of The Songbooks', to which I listened while driving from Washington, DC to Chicago last week.
Despite her rep, Ella F via this CD has never moved me. Listening in the car was no different. The singing was antiseptic, cold, dry, BORING. I resolved to spin it on the CDS.
What a difference! NOW I hear why she was so popular! Captivating. Moving. A real person singing real music with real accompaniment and LIFE!
Am I just someone who doesn't like CDs, or are there others on this forum who have great difficulty appreciating CDs on run of the mill players? Or is there something about Ella Fitz? Or the Songbook CDs? What am I missing here, if anything?
I'm really p***ed off about how much money I had to spend to enjoy CDs. The VFM for vinyl seems to be orders of magnitude better than for CDs - every time I listen to a CD I am confronted by this fact.
Regards.
Phil
When I first heard the CDS(1), I heard the first CD player that I really LIKED. I bought one last July. Before then I used, first, a Philips CD880, then a Sony X77ES (which J. Gordon Holt - founder of Stereophile and editor/publisher when it was a great mag - liked a lot).
I have a CD of Ella Fitzgerald, 'The Best of The Songbooks', to which I listened while driving from Washington, DC to Chicago last week.
Despite her rep, Ella F via this CD has never moved me. Listening in the car was no different. The singing was antiseptic, cold, dry, BORING. I resolved to spin it on the CDS.
What a difference! NOW I hear why she was so popular! Captivating. Moving. A real person singing real music with real accompaniment and LIFE!
Am I just someone who doesn't like CDs, or are there others on this forum who have great difficulty appreciating CDs on run of the mill players? Or is there something about Ella Fitz? Or the Songbook CDs? What am I missing here, if anything?
I'm really p***ed off about how much money I had to spend to enjoy CDs. The VFM for vinyl seems to be orders of magnitude better than for CDs - every time I listen to a CD I am confronted by this fact.
Regards.
Phil
Hi Phil.
your story sure sounds familiar to me.
SInce 1987 I've had about 16(!) different CD-players. From a simple Rotel or NAD to a Proceed PCD-1.
My first experience with quality vinyl playback was at a friends house. He used (and still does) a Nait-2, a Rega Planar 3 and some cheap Mission 760SE's on Atacama stands.
It was stunning! I couldn't belive my ears, everything sounded so real and involving.
I've had some CD-players (like the Proceed) that 'sounded' nice,but I also missed the involvement that a good TT had.
Now, about 2 years ago I got into Naim CD-players.
First I got me a CD3.5,which I liked. But then that same friend came along with his Rega Planar-3 and still...
The TT won over de way more expensive CD-player,in most area's.
Than I added a flatcap,which moved the CD-3.5 to a higher level,just above the Planar-3,imho
(still, imo it's a BIG compliment for an affordable TT design of more than 15 years old, that can compete with recent more expensive CD-players!)
Now I have a CDX and I enjoy it very much!
(as I should considering the absurd high prices of a CDX, or CDSII for that matter)
...still,....the analog feeling will probably always haunt me. I'm never 100% cured
So, I completely agree with ya,Phil.
It's a shame that good CD-players have to cost so much before they can beat/compete with a midprice TT.
regards,
Alco
your story sure sounds familiar to me.
SInce 1987 I've had about 16(!) different CD-players. From a simple Rotel or NAD to a Proceed PCD-1.
My first experience with quality vinyl playback was at a friends house. He used (and still does) a Nait-2, a Rega Planar 3 and some cheap Mission 760SE's on Atacama stands.
It was stunning! I couldn't belive my ears, everything sounded so real and involving.
I've had some CD-players (like the Proceed) that 'sounded' nice,but I also missed the involvement that a good TT had.
Now, about 2 years ago I got into Naim CD-players.
First I got me a CD3.5,which I liked. But then that same friend came along with his Rega Planar-3 and still...
The TT won over de way more expensive CD-player,in most area's.Than I added a flatcap,which moved the CD-3.5 to a higher level,just above the Planar-3,imho
(still, imo it's a BIG compliment for an affordable TT design of more than 15 years old, that can compete with recent more expensive CD-players!)
Now I have a CDX and I enjoy it very much!
(as I should considering the absurd high prices of a CDX, or CDSII for that matter)
...still,....the analog feeling will probably always haunt me. I'm never 100% cured
So, I completely agree with ya,Phil.
It's a shame that good CD-players have to cost so much before they can beat/compete with a midprice TT.
regards,
Alco