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RE: 25 years of CD player progress

Posted by pictureguy (A) on July 23, 2012 at 17:23:45

In Reply to: RE: 25 years of CD player progress posted by Crazy Dave on July 23, 2012 at 13:34:29:

I know the early CD players had problems...but the Magnevox / Philips were generally at the head of the class.
The first Sony players shared a single DAC in a time-share arrangement between channels. I guess this produced some awful results.

The first players I saw were either the top loader I bought or a kind of front loader where the 'tray' tipped forward and the disk dropped down into the machine.

Your player? Near the start of the tray open/close system in common use today.

But, don't forget later still came the 1-bit players. In a 3-way blind test of 2 of the 1-bit vs a Philips system 16 bit, the listeners could not only tell the difference but preferred the philips player to either of the others. This was to a statistically valid degree.

So, I'd say you've probably got a pretty good early player which took a while to be bettered. I have no idea of the model #s you quote, but do recognize the ES in the Sony models as representing their better efforts.

My impression is that the first players were OK, than went uphill somewhat before a downhill blip during the 1-bit era followed by rapid improvements. I know I must have 'sold' people on CD when they first came out, simply by tossing them a Cassette I recorded off my player onto a regular dolby cassette for the home. The quality was so far ahead of ANY commercial cassette that people 4 or 5 of my friends bought CDs within 6 months of my demo.

I'll also freely admit that once I had my CD player, I pretty much tuned out and my 2nd player was a CA 840c.....about 25 years after my first!

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