Hello everyone,
After several reviews of CD Players, you've been quite a number to ask me how to do the same. I'm really pleased to see that I'm not the only one interested in these old (or sometimes new) devices. So here you go with a very quick guide on how to do the same.
I will regularly update this message with your input and feedback, so feel free to come back as it will evolve.
It all starts with a Test CD
We first need a test CD to perform the measurements because the CD Player itself will be the generator.
When I started to review CD Players, I was using available test CD like those of Sony, Denon, CBS,... But they were old, difficult to procure, expensive, not respecting the latest standards (eg: no dither) and often incomplete in terms of test signals. So for the following 12+ months, I worked at creating a Test CD, with the below objectives:
- Ensure we could replicate the quality of available test CD with a burnt CD
- Have a complete set of test...