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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: CD player differences
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Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 11:00:04 EDT
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Greg Paley says:

> I have to, quite frankly, dismiss the need for laboratory-perfect
> volume matching, at least for the type of listening comparison I find
> meaningful.

Later in the same article, he says:

> First off, I have to say that, contrary to the results of a previous
> CD comparison mentioned on the net, the results were NOT unanimous.
> We all heard definite differences between the three players, but
> came to radically different preferences based on what we heard.

Hearing differences and not being able to agree on what they are
is a typical result of very slight level differences.  Since you didn't
match levels, how do you know that mismatches don't account for
the differences you think you heard?