Parrot Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 This one that sold on eBay isn't mine, but it's the same model. I got mine in 1984 for $299 on a close-out special and it came with a coupon for 10 FREE CDs of my choice. This was still back in the first-generation, high-dollar CD player era, when $1000 was a fairly normal price. That was an excellent machine, worked well for 6 or 7 years and then it started acting up. Sounded one heckuva lot better than the Sony units of the time. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3272&item=3858955016&rd=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnm Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 If I recall correctly Frank Van Alstine liked this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 Could be. I know it was modded by some company or other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted December 17, 2004 Author Share Posted December 17, 2004 Here are a couple of old snaps from 1987, shortly after I purchased my Khorns. In the first one you can see the Magnavox CD player on the first shelf down. Two shelves down from it is my old EICO HFT-90 mono FM tuner. The EICO HF-12 was elsewhere in the room. The TV resided there for about a day. Here is a bad photograph of three of my reel-to-reel decks. From left to right a Revox A77 half track, a Revox A77 quarter track, and a Crown 880 quarter track. The cactus is partially obscuring the right Khorn. I think my entire CD collection at the time was on those bottom two shelves! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edwinr Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Marantz, from the best of my recollection, also did a model based on this same chassis. Later Meridian released a version in overseas markets. It featured 14 bit 4 times over sampling processor. I was too slow and missed the first model. But I purchased the model after that, being a gold coloured Marantz CD12 (I think that's the model number - I gave it to my mother and it's now boxed up somewhere in my mess). Surprisingly good sound from 14 bits. Construction quality leaves the current crop of competitors well behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klipschfoot Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 PAULparrot, lover of fine audio before many present-tense audiophiles knew that vinyl was more than upholstery covering. If I recall correctly, Magnavox embraced the charge on CD technology. I still have a player somewhere, I think. Coax digital output jack? Yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 Here is an example of MY first CD player. I bought it about 1992 or so. I finally had to buy one of these damn things because just about any new music I wanted to hear was available only on CD. I still have it--it's part of my garage system and it's still going strong--built like a TANK! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3272&item=3860162968&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 17, 2004 Share Posted December 17, 2004 I bought a portable Sony D4 back in '87. I was sick of cassette eating car decks, and I didn't want to pay the price for a decent deck. Soon found out line-out wasn't enough gain for car amps, volume out wasn't much better. We took one of those little powered pair of speakers for a Discman, trashed the speakers, and used it for a pre-amp for the little D4 Sony in the car/van. I had a '66 Econoline van that had a pair of 12" Kickers in some old Fisher cabinets, some magnavox squawkers, radial domes, 6x9's, a couple of amps....a rolling PA speaker. Poor man's stereo. It was the Tinnitus wagon, but when you rolled into a keg by the river and threw the doors open and got away from the van 50, 100 feet, it didn't sound bad. Once somebody in a Jeep cut myself off rather bad in traffic. The Discman sat on the doghouse on a pillow. I slammed the brakes hard enough to just SLAM the little Sony on the floorboard hard. I thought it was shattered, It retracked and started playing again. (Any new one would have been smashed into pieces.) Of course, I could buy 5 or 6 portables for what I paid for it nowdays. Vintage CD players.....too bad they didn't have little odometers, or hour meters.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Sony D-555, circa 1990. 8 times oversampling and DSP! Still works fine. From the looks of eBay they may be collectible now.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daddy Dee Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Also got my first CD player in 1984. It was a Sony. Don't remember the model number, but happened to see on Ebay a few weeks back. At the end of 1984 there were only 50,000 CD player owners in the US. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike stehr Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 I always wanted the D-555....I liked the DSP option. I think they were around $500 new back then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott0527 Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Paul, your decor has come a long way since early 80's! Thanks for the old pics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 ---------------- On 12/18/2004 8:25:51 AM scott0527 wrote: Paul, your decor has come a long way since early 80's! Thanks for the old pics. ---------------- You're welcome. That was a basement apartment I lived in a while, complete with $3-a-sheet paneling. The square footage in there was great although it needed a higher ceiling. I'm glad I had tip-toes on the bottoms of my Khorns because there was one time after a heavy storm when the edges of the place had a quarter-inch or so of water. Tip-toes saved the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovemyhorns Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 My first CD player was a Yamaha CD-X1... it eventually broke, but it lasted for a little over 10 years of extensive use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted December 18, 2004 Author Share Posted December 18, 2004 It is kinda funny how long some of these old players last. I think I was told once a laser is only good for 1000 hours. But I've got a Luxman player (not my main one) from 1992 that is still going strong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 ---------------- On 12/18/2004 1:49:17 AM mike stehr wrote: I always wanted the D-555....I liked the DSP option. I think they were around $500 new back then? ---------------- thereabouts, saw a reference of $499.99 retail, seem to recall getting mine for closer to $400.. Musical little player, including a write-up on portables that Steve Rochlin published last year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D0N Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 my 1st cd player was one of the first ever sony indash auto cd player. CDX-r77. Around 1984 I think. It was awesome. Soon to be replaced by their next indash model... the cdx-r88. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leok Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 I'm pretty sure that's a Philips player. Philips used the Magnavox brand for some time. Also, I think the the N.A.P. Consumer Electronics Corp. is North American Philips .. . leo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 Good guess Leo. Magnavox FD1000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Songer Posted December 18, 2004 Share Posted December 18, 2004 ---------------- On 12/18/2004 8:25:51 AM scott0527 wrote: Paul, your decor has come a long way since early 80's! Thanks for the old pics. ---------------- "There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste" --Goethe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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