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Secondly, if all CDPs provide essentially flat response from 20-20KHz, (no real difference beween CDPs) get yourselves a discman, save yourselves the cost of a high zoot CDP and enjoy your systems!



Or a low end CD player with a digital out that lets the DAC in your receiver or preamp do the real work. It's a fairly mindless task to read and hand off a digital stream these days.

And I believe JohnK has had pretty good luck with lamp cord.