Personal CD player evolution


To take a cue from the previous threads 'amp' & 'speaker' personal evolution, I bid you this question...

for me it was a Hitachi small black box circa 1983, bought from a Luskin's discount electronics store (I think I paid around $250), then...

-Yamaha COX-700U (1985 or so, still in use by my father)
-Carver ? model to match a Carver amp I had at the time
-Rega original Planet
-Cary 303/100
-Cary 306/200
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Dates are estimated:
1986 Sony single disk player (yuck)
1989 Adcom GCD-575
1996 Added Audio Alchemy DDE 3.0 DAC, DTI-Pro (wow)
2000 Replaced Adcom with MicroMega T-Drive 2 transport
2002 Replaced MicroMega with AA DDS-Pro transport (wow)
2004 BAT VK-D5se (wow)
Cool thread.. Really makes you think back..

1988 NEC Single Player..(Got me through College)
1990 Denon DCD-670
1991 Denon DCM-420 5 Disc Player
1992 Adcom GCD-575
1994 Pinoneer Elite PD-65
1998 Added a Theta DS Pro-Basic II DAC with D-60 Cable to the PD-65 and used it as a Transport.
2000 MicroMega Stage 6
2002 Sony XA-7ES
2004 Sony SCD-222ES Changer
2004 Cary CD-308
2005 Sony XA-777ES
2006 Electrocompaniet DAC-1 and Theta Miles Transport connected via D-60 Cable..
Maineiac, looking at your pictures....I think a nice vintage over/under would look great hanging on the wall between the tv and the bird....
:)
Pioneer PD-5100 (1987). Still own it
Cambridge D500SE (2001). 3 of them, all defective
Music Hall MMF25 (2002). Great, underrated player
Sony SCD-C333ES (2002). SACD changer. Still own it
Granite 657 (2004). Still own it
Samsung HD841 (2005). Universal. Still own it
Magnavox FD1000 (1983)
Magnavox 460 (1987)
Sumo Theorem and Axiom (1993)
Denon DCD-1650AR (1999)
Benchmark DAC1 w/Sonic Frontiers CDT-1 (2005/2006)