why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable???

Specs are all that matter.  Forget about actually listening.  Doh!

Another point he made about speaker tech not changing for decades is true in the audiophile world of passive speakers. There are companies driving the future of high fidelity like Buchardt, Kii, Dutch and Dutch, GGNTKT, Genelec and others with active designs incorporating DSP. I would also say the CD player isn't as relevant anymore either music reproduction is moving to streaming.

@oleschool,

Many of us unfortunately only found out after going around the long way.

You are fortunate to have received such an honest and straightforward response. 

 Thanks for sharing.


"interesting that the world of true audio quality has been grossly mis-represented in the market place. This has mainly been driven by Hi-Fi Press and marketing vogue that perpetuate the myths that what makes a great audio system is some exotic, very expensive speaker cables, a 'high end ' player and some exotic amp.

[There are many vested interests at work]


Its also true that vintage audio products like valve amps and vinyl are creeping back into fashion - more of a symptom of the issue that audio quality has for the most part reached an impasse."

[The full circle end point for many audio veterans]


The main culprit - loudspeakers represent the main ceiling on audio quality and this really has not changed for many decades.

Put simply if you change the speakers to something that really does the sound transduction step (the most compromised part of the audio chain) much better then you begin to see the leap in improvement that is possible.

[Loudspeakers do indeed distort the most - it's been that way for decades]


For the most part the amp (as long as it is solid state and has decent power output) and the cable (as long as it is something a bit thicker than human hair) makes little to no audible difference to audio quality.

[Every attempt to prove otherwise has amusingly, but not unsurprisingly, failed]


The type of CD player does not matter either, as the speakers  introduce a degree of distortion and degradation that commonly outweighs any differences my many orders of magnitude.  

We have had really good reviews by the audio press but they still don't want to admit that the latest exotic looking £2000 CD player really does nothing special but helps sell magazines so perpetuating the scam!

[Magazines need a reason to justify their cover price in addition to posing as boutique catalogues]


Ridiculous really when you can get a BD player for £40 that trumps the CD spec in every aspect!

Don't get me started on vinyl! S"

[Almost everyone now knows about the billion dollar cable scam first initiated by Noel Lee back in the 1970s, and who would want to seriously argue that any BD player has an inferior technology to any CD player?]


Thanks again for posting, it might save someone a lot of money and time in their endeavours to get a satisfactory sound.

".......satisfactory sound."          And there you have it: all a great many seek and so easy/cheap, to accomplish!        Same reason Chef Boyardee and Little Caesars are still in business.    

High End audio has increasingly been driven by fantasy, clever marketing and hearsay from the gullible! Same as the wine market where oeniriphiles swoon over the virtues of expensive bottles compared to the "cheap stuff"!