Quote Originally Posted by Pat D
Paul Bergman clearly didn't know what he was talking about. My advice is not to get your technical information from that rag, UHF.

Aside from all the other crap, he has evidently not heard of dither. With a little dither, CD players can have good linearity down to below -110 dB, which should be impossible, according to Bergman. If you had read some good reviews, you'd know that. Look at the low level linearity measurements for different players. Here's a link to a review of an old Radio Shack portable CD player in Stereophile in 1994. Check out the low level linearity graph in Figure 5, which shows its linearity was pretty good even a -100 dB (and this player is nothing special).

http://stereophile.com/digitalsource...0/index12.html

Others have reasonable linearity down to below -110 dB, as with this SimAudio product (Stereophile doesn't seem to review many reasonably priced CDPs!):

http://stereophile.com/digitalsource...io/index4.html

So much for the myth that CDs don't have more dynamic range than analog tapes!!
Thank you for this. Anyone who says that CD does not have a greater dynamic range than vinyl, is either dreaming, delusional, or totally uneducated in digital audio.