| I know this will come as a controversial and perhaps shocking suggestion, but is it possible that they imagined they heard a difference?
I love these kind of anedotes......it's never the case that there was "maybe a difference but i was not sure and i could have been imagining it", it's always a "BIG" difference!
I would also say his CD player seems to be underperforming considering that it cost (presumably) a large chunk of that 145k, because my 60 euro Plextor burner will rip an audio CD (without any weights or crystals added) to a good enough degree that it will cancel bit for bit with the original wav file from which it was burned (although i do admit to having a dream-catcher draped over the power-cord).
edit: i just re-read your original post, and it seems the weight is part of the design of the player (like some of those fancy Sony SACD players), in which case it could make a difference as it's designed to work that way, although i imagine it's more likely designed like that for theatrical effect! |