the best CD player between 6'000 - 10'000 $ ?

Marantz sa11s1 which i had was very precise , detailed with excellent pin point imaging NOT MUSICAL. does rock music very very good.

Sold it and i brought audio aero capitol reference - this is less precise, less detailed and no pin point imaging like marantz. BUT VERY MUSICAL .

Both are good , depends on the listeners taste.

all components are imperfect. thus a component cannot be musical, its errors may be pleasant or unpleasant. in all cases there will be inaccuracies of timbre, thus a stereo system and component are not musical.

recordings may approach accuracy of timbre and the sound of a minimally uncolored stereo system, playing a minimally erroneus recording will approach the sound of instruments.

it is a mistake to speak of components as musical. components don't make music, rather instruments do, and recordings are an attempt to recreate the sound of instruments.

it makes sense to discuss components as more or less inaccurate and describe the nature of the inaccuracy.
perhaps, by musicality, you mean euphonically colored.

Mrt, if a tree falls in the forest with nobody around does it make any noise?

Hi Mrtennis

May be musical is 'right timbre with continous sound and less digititis'

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