Personal CD player evolution


To take a cue from the previous threads 'amp' & 'speaker' personal evolution, I bid you this question...

for me it was a Hitachi small black box circa 1983, bought from a Luskin's discount electronics store (I think I paid around $250), then...

-Yamaha COX-700U (1985 or so, still in use by my father)
-Carver ? model to match a Carver amp I had at the time
-Rega original Planet
-Cary 303/100
-Cary 306/200
128x128pehare
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....
:)
Pioneer PD-5100 (1987). Still own it
Cambridge D500SE (2001). 3 of them, all defective
Music Hall MMF25 (2002). Great, underrated player
Sony SCD-C333ES (2002). SACD changer. Still own it
Granite 657 (2004). Still own it
Samsung HD841 (2005). Universal. Still own it