Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

Yep, Rega Saturn. Just bought it 6 months ago. I stuck with my turntable rig I've owned since the 1980's (SOTA/SME). Just got married and we (she) needed the convenience of CD's, since she was not allowed to touch my turntable rig! I can't believe I finally did it.....got married and bought a CDP!!! At 44 years of age, it's about time (for both).

Yes I do.
I am still using it.

1988 Magnavox boombox. I got it as an Xmas present along with Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles cd. This cdp lasted up until my junior year in college when I inadvertently backed my car over it after a long day drinking at the beach. There are great memories with that cdp...I did a lot of things (legal and illegal)to the music that cdp produced.

Mine was a Mission, which was basically a Phillips with a superior analog output circuit in a separate potted module that was stuffed in the box with some foam to keep it from rattling around. I had gone to an audio shop all prepared to buy a Sony, but the Mission sounded so much better that I was sold on it. The Mission used a pair of D/A converters for the two channels, whereas the Sony time multiplexed one D/A. I used this player for at least 15 years.

A little history...Oversampling was a Philips idea (which they didn't bother to tell Sony about) so that they could use a good 14-bit DA instead of the flaky 16-bit ones that were common when CDs were introduced. Everyone agreed that the oversampling 14-bit Phillips ran circles around the Sony units.

I bought it in '87.

It broke after like two years. I'd always heard to stay away from extended warranties but for some reason this was the one time I actually bought one. How 'bout that!

But the warranty was from the infamous Crazy Eddie. It/he was was bankrupt by then. How bout that too.