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From: shauns@vice.UUCP (Shaun Simpkins)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Sony CDP 605 CD Player
Message-ID: <131@vice.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 14:40:07 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  9 14:40:07 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 03:44:48 EDT
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> I just read the Audio Magazine review of the new sony CDP 605 CD
> player.  This unit seems to combine everything that anyone could
> want.
> 
> This all seems too good to be true (except for the $1300 price).
> This machine combines great convenience with the best sound around.
> Does anyone out there in net land know any reason not to start
> saving my pennies for this new toy?

Consider the Sony CDP 520ES for 1/2 the price.  Same drive, no front
panel random access track/index selection (but available on the
remote), same 2x oversampling, only one DAC, but according to High
Performance Review, an absolute knockout.  When tested against the
Meridian player and the old Sony CDP-701ES, the reviewer claimed that
bass definition, imaging, and soundstage depth were far better than
either, and that the much taked about 'harshness' of earlier players
was gone.  In fact, for the first time in ANY snob review magazine I
can think of, the CDP520ES was placed on a par with an equivalent $600
turntable/cartridge.  What significance you place on these reviews is
up to you, but every audio magazine I have read of late lionizes all
of the new Sony line, from the CDP102 on up.  And, if you don't want
to spend $600 for a 520ES, consider its semi-snob cousin, the 302 for
$100 less.  Same everything as the 520ES but just not as "cherry picked"
and available mail order for $380-$400.  The problem is finding one
in stock, since Sony didn't gear up for the initial demand and is 2-3
months backordered.  I've listened, I like, and have a 520ES on order
simply 'cause I'm a yuppie and am willing to pay another $100 for an
additional 218ES on the front panel.

The wandering squash,

-- 
				Shaun Simpkins

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