Your CD Player history

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  1. Pioneer PD 9700
  2. Sony XA20es
  3. Exposure CD Player (still in use)
102
  1. Realistic something or other. I worked at Tandy at the time so had alot of the Realistic gear… some of it very good as it was rebadged Japanese stuff.
  2. Teac player, cant remember pretty shyte.
  3. Sony all in one cinema surround system… what was I thinking!
    4.Onkyo piece of cheap crap.
    5.Marantz CD6007UK…getting back into it.
    6.Naim CD5si… sold… needed the cash.
  4. Arcam Alpha Plus…old but brilliant…I rebuilt the DAC board…nice!
    8.Finally Cambridge CXC transport through my ND5XS2.

Pass on the numbering above…no idea what’s happening.

103
  1. Cheap 80’s player (well all CD players sound the same don’t they)
  2. NAD 5420 (now propping up my computer screen)
  3. NAD 542
  4. Cyrus CD8x
  5. Cyrus CDXTSE2
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Got a Philips CD104 in 1984
Then next I can remember was a
Teac VRDST1 transport
Then
musical Fidelity M1 transport
Both played through my Chord DAC 64.
Which I had until we cut down on boxes and got a Star

105

  1. Denon DCD580.

  2. Rotel RCD 965BX - the one to have in the early 90’s.

  3. Pioneer PD-901 - stable platter upside down mechanism. Built like a tank but a bit weird on some discs (‘legato link’ conversion).

  4. Naim CD3.5 - first ever Naim purchase. Loved it and wish I still had it.

  5. Cyrus CD XT SE+ - amazing sounding transport with matching Cyrus Pre/DAC. Flaky 1st gen slot loading mech though and in the end had to get rid.

Now just rip all my CDs (which I still buy) and stream them.

106

What happened to the mission PCM400 did you sell or trade in

107

Only ever had one CD player - Technics SL XP490

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108

I held off a CDP until the mid 90s and then bought a Philips machine from Richer Sounds.

Then from what I can recall:

Arcam 72
Arcam 92
Chord 64 DAC with the 92
Marantz 63 SE
Chord Blu I/Chord QBD76
Cyrus CDT
Cyrus CD XT Signature

Followed by home demos of:

Primare DD35
Hegel Mohican
Audolab 6000CDT
Denon DCD 1600NE

And now currently:

Sony UHD 800M2
Marantz SA8005

109

I seemed to be the only one that owned a Cavier CD player (Canadian I think). Anyone else have any knowledge been trying to track down a photo but there doesn’t seem to be much info online.

110

Sold by my wife.

It’s a long story…

111

There was a Canadian electronics firm by the name of Carver, founded by Bob Carver. They included CD players in their lineup.

112

That’s him, I’m obviously spelling it wrong thank you.

It was a great cd player but plagued with problems. They replaced my first one and then the second failed as well. Cheers.

113

Pretty sure this was it, it was the mid 80s which was a bit of a blur for me.

Marvellous what the correct spelling can do. :grin:

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114

I have a Denon DCD S-10 from 1999 that works perfectly so far… -take in wood, as we say in Sweden :innocent:
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115

Interesting: the British phrase is a bit different, but still wood: touch wood

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This caught my eye. I know the Karik is old but it seema likely to be the best of those three. I was very familiar with it and felt it was a suberb machine.

117

Mission pcm 4000 used fairly regular still sounds good on original Philips mechanism. 38 years old now still have a fondness for it :grinning:

118

Ok thanks, been there years ago

119

It probably went a little fast with the google translation, the expression is the same in Sweden “ta i trä” = touch wood :blush:

120

Marantz CD 63 Mk II ( later upgraded with Cambridge Audio Dacmagic 1 - great upgrade)

Linn Ikemi (absolutely brilliant)

Streaming