Who still listens to their First Generation Cd Players?

I never kept my first gen CD players, but what I remember of them, they were "gawd-awful." IMO

 @mr_m which make and models? I listened to a Marantz 73. The sound was jaw dropping awesome. Mind you played thru a luxman amp and tannoys. The 73 is an early 80s model

Can't remember the model numbers. The first player was a Sylvania, the next, a Magnavox. Not the one everybody was doing the Frankenstein mods on though. In the Mid 90's, I had a Marantz CD-63 SE. Absolutely loved that player at the time. I think it sold for $500.

I listened in 1983 to the first CD player imported for sale here in the USA: a Hitachi vertical-loader. I was far from impressed! It was at a dealer's store in CT. In fact, I waited until 1992 before buying my first player - a Technics Bitstream. The first few generations never sounded good to me!

I find the tone from a rotel and many other retro cda's is pure.
A lot of the new type cd/dvd...sound clinical and synthetic to me, usually far to much treble.
Barring the new really expensive units like Arcam, Cambridge, HK and such.
So for me i will stick with the older ones, especially the units using the Philips CDM 9/65'S and such.
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