One more thing to add is regarding the F80 performance

George, I have huge admiration for the amount of work and time that it must take for you to maintain this forum and I also have great respect for your opinions

Unfortunately, I must respectfully disagree with your blanket statement about the F80 being unable to reveal the difference between CD and Lossless Replay.

While this may be true for many forms of music, it is easy to discern a difference when playing well recorded Jazz sessions; Piano solos, some Female Vocals and most Operatic Vocals

Play Joni Mitchell "Blue"; much of Laura Nyro; early Van Morrisson; Horace Silver "Song for my Father"; Pavorotti / Mirella Freni / Von Karajan "La Boheme" from 1972; or any Yo Yo Ma or Ashkenazy recording and I will be able to tell you the difference between CD and Lossless on an F80 (never mind MP3)

Play much of Bob Dylan; Neil Young; Bruce Springsteen; REM; Arcade Fire; RadioHead; Jeff Buckley; Amy Winehouse and I will struggle mightly to tell the difference between CD and Lossless on an F80 (not true for MP3 by the way)

So the F80 can reveal differences, just not for all types of music or artist. I might describe the difference as being akin to different years of the same wine

Now if the F80 can resolve audible differences, then imagine what a Meridian Player into M Processor and M Speakers can do. Here the differences are more akin to the differences between 2 different Wines or 2 different Beers!!!

My 2 sixpacks worth!!!

Last edited by RHurley; 2007-09-13 09:28.
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