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um. what?

I don't believe they boost one part of the frequency spectrum as much as people just believe it's better since they do tests where they know the brand, and not blind tests. Even without bias, placeabo can rear its ugly head.

With amps, there are variables such as frequency response, damping factor, distortion, and wattage output, which some sites have been able to measure. A CD player's output is even simpler than that - no wattage to measure, and no damping factor, just distortion and frequency response. I haven't time to look, but I'm sure some sites have measured expensive and cheap CD players using computers and posted these findings. So enough of the arguing, more scientific testing.