cd player to tame system brights

[E-Stat]

Boy, I can sure tell you're not married YET! hehehehoho!!

Brother, have you got a surprise coming after that ring's on her finger. Ask any married man.

He'll find out soon enough !

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[magictooth]

The discs are burned collections of material. They should be exactly the same. I've got to say that the high end DVDP and the DAC yield a more natural presentation that you probably won't understand until you've heard it.

Yeah, not sure about 2dB, but I thought the normal threshold was 3 dB. And the 2dB difference wasn't with a test tone, but rather playing music so there may have been greater differences in some of the loud peaks. It might be important to note that the RDV-1 was 2dB less than the Toshiba 1600 and normally people say that the louder piece sounds better whereas I found I could differentiate between the two units perfectly and I thought the RDV-1 sounded better.

Another interesting tidbit, I just checked with the SPL because I didn't check intially (my bad) - the RDV-1 is an astounding 7dB less on average than the RDV-1 + AN DAC 1.1x. I'm not sure what that means to the methodology, but you'd think an huge 7dB difference would make it easier to discern between units instead of making it more difficult.

The only thing that I can think of is that when the wife muted the system and it kept playing maybe my acoustic memory forgot which one I thought was playing before. As well, it might be that the music which comes from different discs might have level changes in each track. Not sure what to think, but maybe mtry can pick these little tidbits apart.