Back again to the basest part of this. We've established any laser and transport can correctly read an audio CD and send on the digital bitstream to a receiver, so any component that reads a CD and sounds different (as so many have attested to) is doing some sort of signal processing.
Flat response throughout the sound path is valued. These players are coloured (something that would be shunned in a speaker!!), therefore, should any CD-P that doesn't accurately relate the data off a CD be shunned as well? Isn't that the whole point of a CD-P? Get the information to be processed to the component that is to process it? That would mean people are paying a premium for a coloured component.
Bren R.
