On Apr 23, 2:49=A0am, "Chronic Philharmonic" <karl.uppi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > It is indeed a Philips player (only one "L").
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> > I still have my Magnavox CDB 650, which was their top of the line
> > player at the time.
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> > I still have an old issue of Audio magazine that proclaimed the CDB
> > 650 to be the best CD player they had ever tested, at any price range.
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> > Mine still works great and sounds great. =A0I also have a CDB 560,
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> > is also an excellent player. =A0I picked it up a couple of months ago
> > for 10 bucks.
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> > The Philips players made in Belgium are among some of the best
> > bargains in home audio. =A0Many of the high-end European players of
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> > day used the same chipset as these old Magnavox players.
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> > My honest opinion is that the Magnavox CD player you found can
> > probably stomp your DVD player into the ground, soundwise. =A0Keep it.
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> I a Magnavox in my garage that I haven't used in about 10 years. It was
> working when I put it up. I suppose it still does. The build quality was
> quite good. Inside, the laser positioning uses a voice coil type
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> like a hard disk. It was one of the original 4X oversampling players
(when=
> they could only reliably build 14 bit D/A converters; they used the
> oversampling to get the two additional bits -- and they were real bits
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> opposed to the "marketing bits" generated by most 16 bit parallel
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> I think the thing weighs about 10 lbs. I finally replaced it with a
1-bit
> 64X Sony deck. I think the Sony does sound better than the 1984
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> device, although the inside of the Sony is nearly empty, and the disk
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Cause it is the same drive they use in computers. Doesn't matter why
you are getting data off a disk, only how fast you can do it
accurately. And the newer drives can do it many times faster and more
accurately than a 20+ year old drive.
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