Hissing

You might want to try out a different CD player. The hiss on those recordings is not noticable on my system. If you can afford it demo a player 2-3 steps better than the one you're using.

-Patrick

If you want to stick with Sony, I have 2 of their ES players and like I say, I don't notice it much on my setup. The ES players rock for the money - hard to beat economies of scale. Arthur

Agree...we are talking of analog master tapes that are over 30 years old...even with the improvement of digital and SACD...I think asking for "hiss free" recordings from this time period is a bit unrealistic...they were afterall analog to begin with...which inadherently contains background noise...this being said...on my rather unforgiving system...the new Stones remasters sound have a much more "black background" than their previous releases...even seminal jazz recordings such as "Kind of blue" have some background hiss...the recording is only as good as the master...and in this case...analog tape...let me also state...for me...the great performances of these listed still come through..maybe we being too spoiled by digital...the more important question is the recording any good to begin with?...

Oddly enough my friend has the cav 50 and he used to have Thiel cs 1.5's (which I now own) and never had any hiss.Later he bought some Sonus Fabers and abra-cadabra ...hiss.Not horrible, but enough to realize that it was a result of the speakers.It wasn't that the Thiels were rolling off any freq's or anything like that, they are just different.The Sonus Fabers seemed to like LP's but old recordings on CD just seemed a little hissy.