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Hopefully I'm not opening another do the components matter debate, but why do you say a dedicated CD player will perform better then music than a DVD? I would expect both to handle that job equally well.


Right. Especially if you connect the player digitally to the receiver or prepro so that you use the DAC on the receiver/prepro (which is the way most people choose anyway), the sound should be IDENTICAL, period, unless the player is overtly defective.