Having had first hand experience of Henno's home system (Wow! ) and helped him do back-to-back comparisons between the CD player in question and the Empeg as alternative sources, I would have to agree that the empeg held it's own on sound quality against the far, far more expensive CD player.

To me, it sounds like an issue with the quality of the ripping of the demo tracks, or the type of input to the amplification (flat, tailored, RIAA compensated, etc.), or an equalisation clash between the empeg and the system - GIGO applies here.

One of the few remaining Mk1 owners... #00015