Wolfgang,

If the new CDP sounds similar to your old CDP then it should be able to imitate your 'wife' voice indefinitely and further auditioning will not expose it.

I think we haven't really been talking about the same thing. To summarize: I think A/B demming CD players is useful to an extent, but ultimately inadequate. I find CDPs all have very similar "voices", but it's not the "voice" that matters to me, so I don't really care if player A "sounds" like player B (indefinitely or otherwise). I'm interested in what the players communicate, but perhaps I'd better abandon analogies now, because I don't want to start sounding like Peter Belt.