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In Reply to: RE: Cheap CD Player needed: Marantz or NAD or ? posted by pictureguy on November 23, 2013 at 10:34:14
Well, everything I ever owned from Sony was pretty darn sturdy....
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I've had mixed luck.
My ORIGINAL 19" Sony Trinitron went probably 20+ years until you could no longer get mechanical tuner parts. And MAN, was it expensive when first purchased.
My '06 Sony SXRD, a 60" rear projector lasted until the filters in the light engine went out……and Sony survived at least 2 class action lawsuits. No mas, for me.
My Sony ICF-2010 All Band receiver? Worth more now than when I bought it and it'll last a LONG time. The best (maybe) hi-tech all band portable ever.
I don't know how long they lasted, but the original 1st gen Sony CD players SOUNDED awful and didn't last.
I hope my PS3 takes after the good stuff…...
Too much is never enough
I have a couple of 90's ear Sony ES players that sound good (to my ears at least), are built very well, and still work fine. I can speak for anything by Sony in the 21st century though!
Dave
The pace of change was pretty rapid during the first years of CD.
Your players….a decade or so after the intro? Should have been Mucho improved over the initial offerings.
Too much is never enough
"Mucho improved" is an understatement!
Dave
I remember hearing the first Sony CD player, which is to say the first CD player. The sound was so horrifying that I had to leave the room. My poor girlfriend had to stay there schmoozing the salesman while I was getting out of earshot. I can't even describe how painful it was.
That's like saying a person should avoid a current model Ford because their grandfather had a bad experience with a Model T.
The original Sony CD player……used 1 DAC and time-shared between channels. They got better with time.
MY first player was the first player on sale in the US…the Magnevox FD1000 which was a Philips player with a 14 bit chipset, 4x oversampling and ZERO features. Mine is in the next room and I'd fix it if I could find a laser assembly for it!
So what WAS the first player available in the US? The Awful Sony or the much better Magnevox?
Too much is never enough
I have a Magnavox FD1000 that still works. I bought in in a thrift store for a pittance. It doesn't sound very good at all, but I didn't expect it to. I just wanted to have it. Go figure!
Dave
Find and read the original Stereophile review of this player. They were impressed at that time. This is the player which gave them hope for the future of digitial media.
I'd LOVE to get a laser put in my player. If for no other reason than to compare with some newer stuff…..or even take to a stereo store for THEM to hear it for themselves!
Too much is never enough
Late 80's players slay it. The difference is not subtle.
Dave
My recollection is that it was the Sony, with a model number like CDP101 or something like that...
Oh, I know...I'll go on the Internet!!
Time Magazine: Thirty years ago today, Sony’s CDP-101 compact disc player went on sale in Japan...the CDP-101 retailed for the equivalent of around $674, which today would be around $1609. Fifty CDs were available at launch, priced between $14 and $15.25 apiece — roughly $33 to $36 today.
I still have one of those horrible sounding CDP-101's. Last time I plugged it in was a decade ago, but back then it was still working, delivering the "perfect sound" that delight people who believe that all CD players sound alike.
Perhaps now's the time to sell it on Ebay...
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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