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Article: CD PLAYERS DIFFER IN PERFORMANCE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 11, 1995
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Consumer Reports no longer scores sound quality when judging CD players; all sound superb. Instead, testers concentrate on model-to-model performance differences that count when conditions aren't perfect or that make programming, playing and taping faster and easier. With today's players, even those differences are generally small. A clunker is hard to find.
Many features are standard: remote control, track programming, shuffle play, a display that tells you which track is playing and its elapsed time. Among extra features, tests separate those that genuinely add to a player's value from those like 8-times oversampling and 18-bit digital filters that ...