Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

Mine was a Techniques $199, Best Buy special. Circa, 1988ish, it had the MASH circut that Zaikesman referred to earlier. I used it to play CD-R's until late last year until it finally took it's last breath and refused to to spit out a Miles Davis CD-R.

I can even tell you the four CD's I bought with my first player back in '88. Metallica, Aerosmith, Eagles, and ashamedly a Nugent colaberation with the guy from Lover Boy or Sticks or some such.

Year 1989, CD player: Technics SPL 333. Still working but it does not like non originals recordings.

sony cdp-501es in 1985 that i bought in japan prior to getting out of the navy. sold it in the early 90s when it started skipping. built like a tank and weighed a substantial amount as i recall.

Hello,

My first CD player was the Sony CDP-497 in 1996. And then a NAD C520. Finnally, I have now a REGA Planet 2000.

Was yours one that loaded the CDs vertically, where you pushed a button and the tray came out to abour 45 degrees, you laid the CD in and closed the tray, kinda like a cassette? That was my first CD player, around 1985, and I loved it. Of course I was 12 and didnt know any better. I had that little guy up until midway through college when it died.