Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo How much SQ difference does CD player make ?

Not much progress yet :

- bought the SPL meter ($69.95 in Canada),

- determined that "tasteful" volume levels for me are about 82dB "C" and "cranking it" is about 95dB,

- realized I didn't have anything that put out a constant volume (stereo receiver, no test tones) so matching SPLs was going to be problematic

- ordered an Avia disk from Amazon... then succumbed to the flu bug which has been going around the office, went to bed, and missed quite a bit of the weekend.

Avia disk should be in tomorrow.

I'm finding more and more reasons to buy an AV receiver. It occurred to me while reading one of the other threads that if there *is* a problem with the CD player sound it could probably be greatly reduced by using a digital feed into the receiver... but of course I have a stereo receiver which has never heard of digital feeds ;(