| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
| Total number of notes: | 13349 |
Hi!
I'm considering buying the ADCOM GCD-575 CD player. I listened
to it at Natural Sound in Framingham and was thoroughly impressed.
It sounded great, compared to a DENON CD player (I forget
the model). The DENON featured 8x oversampling and 20bit DACs,
while the 575 is 4x and 16 bits. But, it was audibly superior to
the DENON one.
My concern right now is the reliability of the 575. Anybody
out there who can shed some light on this issue?
Thanks,
Prasad
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| 1379.1 | No help yet huh? | NAMBE::BENBACA | The Boogens Lives.....In California | Tue Jan 10 1989 14:25 | 9 |
You probably got no answers because your note belongs in the
audio conference. There you will get more than enough answers to
your questions about the hardware you are looking to buy. I promise!
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\_/ Ben
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| 1379.2 | Adcom, Maybe, But Not at Natural Sound | AQUA::ROST | Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny | Tue Jan 10 1989 14:43 | 4 |
I would advise against buying at Natural Sound. I have had unpleasant
experiences there as have other people I know.
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| 1379.3 | It's new | STAR::BIGELOW | Bruce Bigelow, DECnet-VAX | Tue Jan 10 1989 16:29 | 16 |
The 575 is a brand new CD player - it's unlikely that anyone could have
had one long enough to tell you much about reliability. And Adcom has
not offered one previously, so extrapolation (except from Adcom's
general good reputation) isn't possible. It was reviewed in the
January issue of Stereo Review if you care to see what they had to say.
They liked it a LOT. They said they would call it the best CD player
they had ever reviewed, except that they thought it skipped too easily
under physical shock. It's also interesting to note that they had
reviewed the new Philips $4000 player only two months before the Adcom,
so by implication they think the Adcom sounds better. So, unless you
plan to throw baseballs at it, or live next to a train or airport, you
might want to think about it seriously. I plan to check it out at
Natural Sound in a few weeks (but would probably choose to buy it
elsewhere based on price alone if I were to decide to get one).
B
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