Well, this is your and their claims, yes. But, as I outlined in my post, unless you do a double blind comparison to remove your biases from influencing your perception and fooling your senses, you will never know you can actually hear a difference in CD players. Them are the facts, incontestable.
We are all professional classical musicians and are pretty demanding with our audio equipment. Please don’t take this as being arrogant/superior…I really don't have that attitude!
No, you are not being arrogant, but you are trying to tell me that because you are a classical musician, you are immune from bias in comparing two CD players? Hardly. And no, you cannot turn it on or off at will. those are facts too
After all, human being are gullible beings and our senses are fooled all the time. Not hard.
Obviously, I probably wouldn’t hear much or any difference with my Ozzy CDs (no offence to Ozzy…I listen to more Rock/Metal than classical). I auditioned the California Audio Labs CD player with several jazz and classical cds before deciding to keep it…I don’t have money to throw away. Like I said before, I heard layers of music I had not heard before on CDs very familiar to me (Miles Davis/Kind of Blue was the best example of this).
Like I said, unless you compare under bias controlled conditions, you are speculating what you perceived. Them are facts too.
The Cal Audio player could be euphonic too, who knows. You certainly don't at this point in the investigation.
Perhaps the CD player I owned at that point wasn't very good. I think it is true that one can get a lot of quality for very little money compared to 5/10 years ago and this was at least 5 years ago.
CD playes have been very good for some time now