The best CD Player for the money

Tvad,.
Exactly..

Thank you Shadorne for some much needed humor after the past week of posts to this thread ...

Its clear to me, after listening to Mr Muralman's "collectors" disc Lavin that the man needs to get out his room and listen to some other systems and the latest digital out there. No truncating of Couvoisier's piano note decay, vague harmonics or blanching tones on my system, and I can compare to a real piano in my room. Maybe some more fun music too, notwithstanding the Niggli's and Courvoisier's talented improv recording. Still, thanks Muralman for pointing out a great small label called Intakt Records. Maybe I'll try some of their other stuff.

Tvad, I think it was mentioned before, but IMHO the Oppo 980H for $169 is the undisputed BEST CD PLAYER FOR THE MONEY. So this is a value for money question. Not an audiophile CDP by any means but probably the answer to this threads question... don't you think?

Muralman, if you want to discuss the benefits of NOS CD players you should start a separate thread.

Tvad, I think it was mentioned before, but IMHO the Oppo 980H for $169 is the undisputed BEST CD PLAYER FOR THE MONEY. So this is a value for money question. Not an audiophile CDP by any means but probably the answer to this threads question... don't you think?

Mtkhl567 (System | Threads | Answers)

I think the answer depends on the perspective of the one asking the question. What is the budget? What is the goal? What is the definition of value?

For each person, the answer will be different.

For you, the answer is the Oppo.

Yes, what is the definition of value ...

But "value for money" suggests a return on investment calculation. Maybe you can look at it this way. If hypothetically, as the originator of this thread suggested, a $10000 CDP would give you 100% musical enjoyment, the Oppo certainly wouldn't score 1.7% of enjoyment, maybe somewhere around 60-70%. So if you could buy ~65% of maximum enjoyment for 1.7% of price ... wouldn't that be a damn good value for the money?

It doesn't help us audiophiles, who are paying stupendous amounts to get that last illusive percent of often perceived improvement...

the Oppo certainly wouldn't score 1.7% of enjoyment, maybe somewhere around 60-70%.
Mtkhl567 (System | Threads | Answers)

Thus is your subjective opinion.

I can easily conceive of other audiophiles who, if for this illustration we agree on the premise that a $10,000 CD player provides 100% musical enjoyment, would say the Oppo provides far less than 60-70% of the $10k player's performance. On the other hand, there would be some who believe the Oppo provides more than 60-70% of the performance. So, the value judgment slides along a scale based one's personal paradigm.

Again, the idea of value is purely subjective and the OP's question simply cannot be answered universally, although it can be discussed much like a topic over beers at a bar.