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Trouble in paradise?(FORUM)(Letter to the Editor)

Sensible Sound

| February 01, 2006 | Moyer, Roy | COPYRIGHT 2006 Sensible Sound. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

I do not consider myself an audiophile, but over the past several years, I have wasted a fair amount of money gradually moving from "consumer" level equipment to a system that I find consistently delightful. Over the past several months, I have bought about half-a-dozen SACDs that won't play on my Sony 9000ES. Each time my first thought was, Oh no, Sony has done it to me again. Yet when I pick an SACD at random from my collection, it plays perfectly. Invariably, the disc sounds fine on my backup Arcam. But it ...

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