CD players of yesteryear

[Miller-8]

Which CD players of the distant past do you think would still hold up today against today's many awesome DACs?

Kenwood DP-7090?
Sony CDP 715?

 

[chartz]

That will be interesting.

 

[ex brickie]

Krell……. Any model

 

[Del monaco]

Rotel 965 BX. Tried it lashed to a modern Dac. Preferred it standalone.

 

[chartz]

Micromega Stage 3 — better than my ESS Sabre DAC. Plain old Philips Bitstream, just wonderfully implemented.

That said, I’ve been listening to my first gen. Philips CD202 clone lately (late 1983) and I heard music too

I’ve always wondered why they got so bad reviews 40 years ago. The discs themselves?

 

[Mike P]

Which CD players of the distant past do you think would still hold up today against today's many awesome DACs?

Kenwood DP-7090?
Sony CDP 715?

Why on earth would you pick out the Sony CDP-715? Sony made loads of amazing high-end CD players. The 715 is just a budget player.

 

[Miller-8]

Why on earth would you pick out the Sony CDP-715? Sony made loads of amazing high-end CD players. The 715 is just a budget player.

Because there are people who say it still hold up. I haven't heard one myself.

 

[flatpopely]

Sony CDP-338ESD, makes CD enjoyable!

 

[John_73]

Rotel RCD-965BX. As I recently mentioned in another thread, installed my old one temporarily after returning a Chord Hugo TT2, and was genuinely astonished how well it held up.

Naim CDI too. I’d love to get another one at some point.

 

[Dowser]

A list as Long as your arm - mostly well implemented TDA1541 implementations - I have 5 or 6 in collection, with Naim CDI being the best (modified). For non-TDA1541 I would call out the Stage 3 mentioned above. And a Mercacus Imagio if you like high end bling All from my own collection…which really should be thinned down!

 

[Gervais Cote]

Linn Sondek CD-12.
Not cheap and not sure if parts are still available but still up to today’s standards IMO.

 

[Accuphaseman]

Philips cd960
Philips cd880
Philips cd104
Philips cd473

 

[chartz]

The CD960 is a thing of beauty. Philips’s best consumer CD player?

 

[Mike P]

The CD960 is a thing of beauty. Philips’s best consumer CD player?

Unless you count the two box LHH1000.

 

[chartz]

Unless you count the two box LHH1000.

Obviously, but this was never seen anywhere!

 

[Mike P]

Obviously, but this was never seen anywhere!

Unless you are in my house

 

[Dowser]

Unless you count the two box LHH1000.

Worth mentioning the cct diagram for this machine really helped me when debugging CDM9 pro based players, including my CDIs, for mech control circuitry.

 

[chartz]

Unless you are in my house

You lucky b***r!

 

[canonman]

Luxman Ultimates series D-500 Xs or either of the wedge shape Studers

 

[chartz]

The broadcast Studer machines are a must-have but rare. I’d love to find a broken one – my whole collection was amassed like that – but I’m not holding my breath…