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In Reply to: 40th anniversary of the Compact Disc posted by Krav Maga on March 18, 2023 at 20:43:55:
"Can you remember what was your first cd player and when you purchased it?"
Magnavox CDB-460....... (Did "chip upgrades" to the thing..... In retrospect, didn't know if they did any good.)
"And, what was the first cd that you purchased?"
Peter Gabriel - "So" ...... (Still have the CD.)
There was a time, until the early 1990s, which I thought the CD was a hopelessly inadequate medium for satisfying high-end sound reproduction....... That all changed when I listened to a Wadia 7/9 combination in a now-defunct high-end audio store in Cleveland..... It was still the best digital source I have ever experienced...... (Although a proprietary digital playback system in the AGD room at the 2019 THE Show was probably comparable.)
What's wacky is that I ultimately settled in on a relatively "cheap" and often maligned CD playback system..... Yet I try modern DACs and playback media, and I personally cannot match it...... A Philips CDC935 CD changer with the output stage replaced by a tube audio section...... The only thing that I believe I had better was the ten grand Prism Sound DA-2 DAC......... But I'm playing CDs more than any other medium...... Sure the vinyl sounds better, but I still enjoy CD playback a lot, to where I don't long to do the vinyl (with rare exception)...... And don't have to worry about preparing or treating the media all the time.
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Follow Ups
- RE: 40th anniversary of the Compact Disc - Todd Krieger 00:27:51 03/20/23 (5)
- RE: 40th anniversary of the Compact Disc - Schurkey 21:40:41 03/21/23 (1)
- RE: 40th anniversary of the Compact Disc - pictureguy 22:10:24 03/21/23 (0)
- "Preparing and treating the media all the time" - geoffkait 04:28:23 03/20/23 (2)
- RE: "Preparing and treating the media all the time" - Todd Krieger 14:35:50 03/20/23 (1)
- RE: "Preparing and treating the media all the time" - geoffkait 20:27:55 03/20/23 (0)
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