mike: I can see your point, especially the philosophical preference. Nevertheless, my ex-girlfriend's badly scratched cds (too many parties at home...) didn't seem to care, because they still played right through on her 3-beam Technics (early 90s), whereas both my Philips (late 80s) and my Pioneer (early 90s) had given up.
As I said Manfred, it is a philosophical preference of mine (single beam over three beam). Honestly, I'm sure there are many fine examples of both.
Although I also have a philosophical preference for "one bit" decoders over "multi-bit", especially in inexpensive cd players because the low level linearity is almost always better in the "one bit" units, there also are excellent (and poor) examples of both.
Greetings Munich from northwestern North Carolina!
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