what's your CD player?

[Kurt C.]

Everyone has a balance that they choose to use between emperical and non-emperical factors when making a decision. As long as they are comfortable with the balance they chose to use, what's wrong with that?

There's clearly nothing wrong with making decisions based on a combination of "head" and "heart".

But...Eddie originally asked for informed opinions on whether the most noticible improvement in the sound quality of his system would come from buying a decent CDP + better subwoofer or just buying a really good CD player.

The rest of this discussion can be boiled down to David and I insisting on a fair evaluation of different CD players. To legitimize a claim that one sounds better than another, one has to do a fair, double bind comparison.

It would be silly for us claim that one car accelerates faster than another if they both do 0-60 in exactly 5.0 seconds, wouldn't it?