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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cmcl2!panix!moskowit
- From: moskowit@panix.com (Len Moskowitz)
- Subject: Re: CD player through old amplifier sounds terrible
- Message-ID: <C19F6G.86C@panix.com>
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <C17HJs.BHA@vu-vlsi.ee.vill.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:35:04 GMT
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- Morgan Besson writes:
- >Today I plugged my Sony portable CD player into a vintage 1965 solid state
- >amplifier (Lafayette 125T) and it sounded awful. This is not a terrible
- >amp, and I tested it with a tuner and it sounds fine. I tried the CD
- >at various inputs, with different speakers, headphones, etc., but it
- >was always the same. There is no brilliance to the sound. It's like
- >an AM broadcast.
- >
- >Is there any known problem with this setup? Thanks in advance for replies.
-
- Yes. Those first generation solid state amps are incredibly awful
- compared to even the worst and cheapest of today's mass market mid-fi
- amps. That includes all the early Dynaco stuff (PAT-4, PAT-5, SCA-80,
- ST-120, ST-150).
-
- My advice: give it away.
-
- --
- Len Moskowitz
- moskowit@panix.com
-