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Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

I had owned the first of the first. I purchased the unit in 1982. It was a Sony CDP 101. It was the most obnoxious, raspy, annoying, piercing, grading, non-musical component I had ever heard.

Also, at the time, the complete CD library that was available consisted of about 15 CDs.

Now? I listen to my newest CD rig more than I listen to my turntable. My, how times have changed.

What was your first CD player and when did you purchase it?
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dgplo
76 posts
 
My player was bought in about 1985 -- some pioneer for about 300.00 +/-. First cd was Stevie Wonder recorded fully digitally, it was the disc with the song part time lover. Man, I thought it was the coolest thing...
keis
176 posts
 
I believe it was the first 4x sampling CD player made. About 1982. I remember the 1st Phillips, Sony, and Phase Linear were the only players in existance when I bought it.
xednep
6 posts
 
Nakamichi OMS 7, still have it but of course it doesn't work. It worked flawlessly for 13 years and started skipping one day. Sound wasn't too bad with 16X oversampling. Went back to vinyl though and occasionally listen to redbooks on a Sony XA20 ES
zinfan2
154 posts
 
In 1983 or so, I bought an early Philips unit followed by a Sony Discman in 1984 (that one was really ghastly!). The first good sounding player was a Tandberg 3015 I picked up in 1985, to the best of my recollection. I really liked that one. There was also an early Sony carousel player in my system around that time too, but I've pretty much blocked that one out.
armstrod
615 posts
 
Mine was an Adcom GCD-575 that I paid $650! for in about 1989. It was head and shoulders above the cheaper drives I listened to, and served me well for over 15 years. Just last fall the transport finally gave up the ghost, and I replaced it with a $250 Onix XCD-88. The Onix blows it away, and I haven't even started with the mods yet. :-)
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