What is Build Quality & Transport on a CD Player?

[musicman1999]

sound quality and volumn have little to do with each other.I to live in an apartment and must restrict my volumn levels,but i have good quality speakers and good quality sound.Doing what you are doing now wont change the fact that if you want to take your sound to another level you need new speakers.Not sating that they are bad,but they are limited in what they can do,they dont have enough range.They only go down to 120hz,if you have your crossover set to 80hz that is to big a gap.

bill

[EdwardGein]

Not saying that your wrong on anything & my sound is actually pretty good but a majority of my problem for which there may be no solution & I keep banging my head against the wall is that most of my albums are remastered CD's of stuff that was recorded in the 70/80's and the sound on alot of this stuff is not to my satisfaction even though the companies insist they used the original recordings and the most modern studio technology to remaster this stuff.
My perfect example is Traffic. I bought the latest remasters of their first 3 albums & was expected to be knocked out, especially by some reviews I read. Well the sound was OK not fantastic- this isn't a comment on the music but the recorded sound & I keep thinking their
must be something better. Same thing with Beatles CD's like Rubber Soul & Revolver. Sound is OK but not fantastic & I keep thinking their must be a way to make this music sound better. When I've brought these kind of CD's into high end stores, they didn't sound that much better either.

[musicman1999]

i agree ed,i have all the early beatles cd's,and they all sound like crap.You can't make something out of nothing.The more revealing your system is the worse they sound.Enjoy them for the music,because until they are remastered,they are not getting any better.

bill

[shokhead]

Not saying that your wrong on anything & my sound is actually pretty good but a majority of my problem for which there may be no solution & I keep banging my head against the wall is that most of my albums are remastered CD's of stuff that was recorded in the 70/80's and the sound on alot of this stuff is not to my satisfaction even though the companies insist they used the original recordings and the most modern studio technology to remaster this stuff.
My perfect example is Traffic. I bought the latest remasters of their first 3 albums & was expected to be knocked out, especially by some reviews I read. Well the sound was OK not fantastic- this isn't a comment on the music but the recorded sound & I keep thinking their
must be something better. Same thing with Beatles CD's like Rubber Soul & Revolver. Sound is OK but not fantastic & I keep thinking their must be a way to make this music sound better. When I've brought these kind of CD's into high end stores, they didn't sound that much better either.

My Guess Who cd,one of the first i bought sounds like when i had a 8-track and the heads were dirty. Buy a new recorded cd from any new recording and it sounds like the heads have been cleaned, nothing you can do will make that old cd sound like you cleaned your heads. All you can do is replaced your old ones with new,remastered. Sometimes the remastered will knock your socks of and sometimes they wont. I always thought my Boston cd was a very bad recording. I bought a gold remastered from the org tapes and OMG. Your orbs are fine but they are small and i;ve said it a million times,you cant get big sound from a tiny speaker imo. If you upgrade anything else,at least TRY some speakers if only 2 that you can return and i think you would be happy and we for sure would be happy for you. LOL,now what are you going to do with your HK?