Mine was a Mission, which was basically a Phillips with a superior analog output circuit in a separate potted module that was stuffed in the box with some foam to keep it from rattling around. I had gone to an audio shop all prepared to buy a Sony, but the Mission sounded so much better that I was sold on it. The Mission used a pair of D/A converters for the two channels, whereas the Sony time multiplexed one D/A. I used this player for at least 15 years.
A little history...Oversampling was a Philips idea (which they didn't bother to tell Sony about) so that they could use a good 14-bit DA instead of the flaky 16-bit ones that were common when CDs were introduced. Everyone agreed that the oversampling 14-bit Phillips ran circles around the Sony units.
A little history...Oversampling was a Philips idea (which they didn't bother to tell Sony about) so that they could use a good 14-bit DA instead of the flaky 16-bit ones that were common when CDs were introduced. Everyone agreed that the oversampling 14-bit Phillips ran circles around the Sony units.