Why is it that hardly any of the current CD players display CD text? Even the most expensive SACD player in the Marantz catalogue, the SA-10, will only display SACD text and not CD text. I've only found Lyngdorf and T&A units that currently offer CD-text display. Why is this, when it used to be pretty much a standard feature? I miss it! Simon Oakley, via email Paul Miller replies: CD Text is an addition to the Red Book standard, offering basic album, track and artist names, but its compliance is not mandatory and many of the CD/DVD-ROM based transport/decoder solutions used in today's players overlook this facility. Specialist CD transport suppliers - StreamUnlimited's 'BlueTiger Connected Optical Drive Platform' being a great example - do support CD Text. You'll find this transport in players from Pro-Ject, among others.
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