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Roy - Thanks for the follow up. Again, the excerpt I quoted is below, though there were several places where comparisons were being made. As I mentioned in my earlier post, I could pretty much tell when the comparison was between redbook (aka hybrid layer?) and SACD or hi rez and something else.

This excerpt (it actually starts with "I also noticed changes in the sound of the acoustic bass….") can be found in the latter half of the second paragraph of the review section headed "Listening Session - Redbook".

"I observed greater density of the strings, greater impact, greater fullness and greater extension in the bass region. The instrument also sounded larger in size. The piano sounded fuller and had more weight….".

So my question was, "Compared to what?"

Thanks for the advice on the mat. I will look into that. Good luck figuring out the cause of changes you are hearing with the Vincent.

Hi Ghosthouse,
The ICs I'm using are the Darwin Silver ICs (not the Ascensions). They really opened up the sound, so to speak, laying bare most everything. If it's coloration, shading or a tone control of sorts, these will not do. They are (in my system) very coherent.

All the best,
Nonoise

Hi, I already said the vincent will take atleast 500 hours to break-in, and the sound to fully intergrate and the bass slam to come thru, cheers.

if the quote was found in the Redbook section , than my statement applied to a collection of digital hardware that I had auditioned prior to the review. it was not meant specifically as a comparison between specific cd players, but rather a collective memory of the music sounding "better" on the reviewed component than it did on other digital products I had auditioned to date.

@ Nonoise, Hi, some how I missed your post about the chassis build quality of the vincent, you are correct, the vincent does have thinner metal and will perform better with tunning, I like that!, being able to change your sound with out electricity is always cool to me!, I have owned digital with built like a tank chassis that sounded bad, no matter what i did, tunning was not available on a chassis like that, it did not work!, the last time I had exsperience with marantz, I did not see any one eighth to quarter inch thickness to the chassis, It is my conclusion, that resonance tunning will work to good effect on any marantz digital player, new or old,, cheers.