WHEN IT COMES TO CD playback, videodisc players make great doorstops

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Started a bit of a firestorm in another thread by stating a basic
truth, that if said anywhere else would hardly get a rise.
BUT this is AUDIOREVIEW, and so it goes.
FUNNY thing is BFALLS, who called me everything from a racist
whoi couldn't tell ASIANS apart (and what has that to do
with anything) to a hater of aspirin(forget about it, everybody's
taking stronger pain killers these days).
He should get banned , but of course he won't . I WOULD
have him banned for being a coward more than anything,
claiming he did not say what he did. BUT I digress.
YEAH, there are exceptions to every rule, but even when the effort is made to have a videodisc do decent CD playback the results are
never more than casual listening adequate .
And anybody who claims otherwise is not paying attention.
EVEN when I bought my first laser in the eighties, I kept my 400
dollar Yamaha, about a 1200 dollar item today.
Didn't quite like the way the Pioneer sounded. But when my gear got stolen, my replacement player, a 690$ SONY, was all I
could afford. DIDN'T care for the CD playback, but for casual listening it was OK, and HT was my thing then.
THEN I bought a cheap 87 dollar Akai five disc changer for a party,
and the sound was a revelation. THIS el cheapo sounded quite a bit better than my expensive SONY LASER.
DVD players were about the same when they came out a few years later, ALWAYS sounded like crap with CD, which was
always added as an afterthought.
And then along came SACD and DVDA, and these players sounded quite good, especially SACD, some of which were not even videodisc players at all. MY FIVE DISC SONY DVD
player played SACD quite well, but CD? STILL STANK.
Basically your run of the mill videodisc player will not handle CD
playback well, and a cheap CD player will never sound as good as
an expensive CD player, that's why people buy expensive CD players. My DVDA player is as much a CD player as a DVDA
player, which is why I BOUGHT IT, figuring that even if DVDA failed it would still do great duty as a CD player(which it does).
MOST of the players HT types buy, for awhile, tended to be higher
line, and CD playback was quite good, but now, with the advent
of BLU we are back to videodisc players that stink as far as CD goes. IN a huge price war a lot is not going to be spent on CD playback, its as simple as that. Exceptions? Sure, but rare.
BASICALLY, if you care about decent sound, you need some kind of dedicated CD player to sit besides your videodisc player,
DVD or BLU. Even videodisc players that try for decent CD
playback are rarely outstanding. Which is fine, I would rather
that attention is paid to video playback on a videodisk
player. DUH, that is why I BOUGHT IT, and if I want decent CD playback...I WILL BUY A CD PLAYER.
You don't buy a washing machine to dry clothes.