Another CD-Player vs. PC question:

Well, skipping is not a good thing, obviously, but the real question is whether the sound is degraded during the normal course of events, even on clean CDs and error correction notwithstanding. Anyone else besides me find CDs to generally sound very generic, bland and extremely uninteresting. I'm referring to out of the box untreated CDs.

Agree to CD in general, but to me there are valuable ones especially the material that had never been released onto vinyl. I value music much more than I value sound or recording/pressing quality. Vinyl is preferable format simply because I can listen to it much longer than CD.

"Anyone else besides me find CDs to generally sound very generic, bland and extremely uninteresting. I'm referring to out of the box untreated CDs."

Thank God, no.

Hmm, don't know what to say, Czarivey. I've had half a dozen CD players, mostly Sonys, and none has skipped. I did have a Sony that stopped playing the SACD layer, but a trip to Sony repair fixed that. Come to think of it, though, except for the Sony XA5400ES and Ayre C-5xeMP, all the disc players I've had have also played DVDs. I wonder . . ., but neither of those players has skipped so far.

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No skipping at all with my Ayre C-5xeMP (which does play DVD-A and audio tracks from video DVDs). And it's my sole source, so obviously I don't find typical CD playback to be bland or boring!