Arcam CD192 CD Player - Sensible Sound
From the April/May 2005 issue:
The CD192 is even better than the CD73. After about a month with the CD73 I hooked up the new player, and as good as the 73 was, in comparison, the 192 seemed as if it had removed a layer of tint from the sonic windows of my system. It was quite dramatic. I would like to say that this player had a euphonic sound, but that might infer that the sound was less than transparent, I just don’t know how to describe its sound any other way other than it just “sounded good”. It was just that even CDs with mediocre mastering became so much more listenable. One has to remember that I’m used to clean LPs played on a near state-of-the-art player, live performances, and mic feeds, and to consider CD sound “sweet” sounding is something that has been alien to me other than a select few CDs over the years. I felt I can listen to just about any CD and feel I’m hearing exactly what not only what the artist intended me to hear, but what sounds like real music made my real musicians in my listening room—via an ordinary CD.