Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

Aiwa XC-30M in 1999. that was my first standalone CD player. Before that I had two different 'boom boxes' in the early and mid 90's. Oh yeah, also had one of the Sony discmans. I got that in '94 IIRC.

Just sold the Aiwa this past week. *Sniff* I have a Marantz CC-47 feeding an EVS Millennium DAC 1 at the moment.

Prior to my boomboxes I got all of my music off of the radio. Even when I got the boomboxes, I used to remember getting the cassette decks to record off of radio stations as I went to bed. I found the classical and pulic radio stations used to play some more non-standard fare at night, especially Sunday night. Then the next day I would listen to whatever I could grab onto a single cassette, and scan for some goodies. I could usually manage to find one new, undiscovered gem that way.

It was sort of a poor poorman's TiVo. .. well without categories. And it was radio. ..and without the timer. And without muliple stations. Well heck it wasn't like TiVo at all! At least I could fast-forward thru the parts I didn't like! I have some fond memories of my youth doing just that. Those were good times. No system. No music collection, except what I could tape off of the air. Man, that was music.

Aaron

It was a J@# model...Tried suing company later for emotional distress.

Out-of-court settlement was satisfactory, though...they bought me a turntable.

Back in 1986 I ordered a Technics SLP-100 cd player (silver) from the States as Canadian prices were double. Was so excited when I got it!! I remember it has super fast access to tracks, but boy.... sure sucked when it came to audio! Bled my ears for a few years with that piece of crap till it started skipping like a pre-teen with a rope. Cleaned the lens, re-lubed the laser slider track and then gave the piece of crap to a friend (poor guy... but it was free). Then I bought a Mission Cyrus PCMII. Great machine for its time. I'm up to a Meridian 602 with a 606 DAC. 10 year old gear that sounds STUNNING. If anyone has a spare laser for the 602 I will buy it. NOW! My machine doesn't skip, never has (knock on wood).

Still got it in the basement - on a shelf - collecting dust. I held off forever before buying one, so I missed the bad digital phase. It was still a cheapo NEC unit and doesn't have a digital out, or I would have converted it to a transport by now.

Enjoy,
Bob

I do not remember the model #'s of my first two cd players but the second two were a Hafler player and the JVC XLZ 1050 which was the first player I had owned that had an obvious sonic advantage over the others I had owned.

The first player I heard at a dealer that made my jaw drop was a Wadia ran through Levinson gear and Thiel 3.6's when they first came out.

Greg