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Older Cd Players vs. new ones

Does anyone have an older cd player from the early to mid-90's that they feel sounds as good if not better than newer models in the same price range? I have a PD-65 that I wont' change out because nothing I hear, despite people saying the technology is so much better now, seems to sound any better. In fact I bought a new Elite SACD player which received great reviews in Europe and the CD layer is not as good as the old Elite pd-65 from 1993. For redbook cd I still use the pd-65 over the new Elite Pd-6-j
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mrtennis
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there is no way to generalize about oldeer or newer players.

that said, there are number of very satisfying older players, such as audio note cd2, cal audio labs tempest and aria, wadia 200-0 series, forsell dac and transport, lector 7 mark 1 (about 5 years old).

my point, i think i could be happier with players, dacs and transports from the 90's and prior to that, than i am with digital components of today.

my favorite cd player, circa 1992, was the naim cd x. i have not heard any digital hardware that i prefer to that player, period !
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