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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD player differences
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 11:09:53 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 13 11:09:53 1985
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> I appreciate the necessity of carefully controlled experiments, but
> you have to take it as you find it when shopping.  It seems to be
> pretty clear that a small difference in loudness makes a difference
> in the percieved quality.  But, what about things like imaging?  
> When I compared an NAD with a Mission cd player - at roughly the
> same volume - the imaging was quite different.  The singer was on
> the floor with the NAD and standing up with the Mission.  Can that
> be a function of a slight difference in loudness?

Yes.