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Saying that a $6 pair of Radio Shack headphones is equal to the Bose lessens any value I might otherwise give your opinion on this issue. You and I both know that isn't true.
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I remember this issue of Stereophile from a long time ago........lol
http://www.stereophile.com/cdplayers/480/
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Is this guy serious?
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tried a killer disc: Rachmaninoff's Symphony 3 and Symphonic Dances, with Mariss Jansons conducting the St. Petersburg Philharmonic (EMI CDC 7 54877 2). On some systems, just before the beginning of the Dances, you can hear a bus in front of the Yevropeyskaya Hotel. The bus (which sounds as if it's pulling out of a parking place and heading down Brodsky Street) is right where it should be: in the right channel.
With the CD-3400, the bus sounded as if it was equipped with a muffler. The player didn't quite offer the ultimate in resolution. In addition, the bass wasn't terribly deep, and dynamics were somewhat congested, if you will. There's only so much you can do with power supplies in a portable CD player that consumes 1˝W of power.
I began fussing around. At first the player was sitting directly atop my B&K Pro 10 preamp.
I tried various rubber feet, to no avail. In fact, the player sounded better while sitting directly atop the preamp. Then I remembered that Veekhtor Goldstein had given me some Harmonix feet, which had proven quite effective with the Pioneer PD-65 CD player. I placed a tripod of feet under the CD-3400. I still couldn't hear the bus, but the overall sound seemed to improve slightly.
Next I tried the Harmonix feet with a Shun Mook Mpingo disc, logo face-down at six o'clock, atop the case over where the hub would be. Holey moley—the soundstage opened up, bass tightened and firmed, and the strings took on more of a sheen
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