Personal CD player evolution

Tvad, if I had only known that you traded in your APL 3910 for the Exemplar 3910 it might have sped up my choice, as well, on the Exemplar. After all, you were so happy with your APL. Maybe it was the other way around? You made the switch after I purchased my Exemplar? I would love to know your impressions. Do you know what is going on with Alex now? I believe major (exciting) changes are under way. thanks in advance....warren :)

I guess in reality I have only had one real CDP, but these other things were used to play CDs so I guess they count.
some JVC 5 Disc - still in attic I think
Toshiba DVD player - traded for food sealer
Denon 2900 - still used for DVD and SACD
Musical Fidelity A5

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....
:)