Who still listens to their First Generation Cd Players?


I still like the sound of those early cd players except early problematic sonys
vinny55

My main music source remain CD players (and  rarely I use my Yamaha K-850 cassette deck - some cassettes give good dynamics). CD players I use are (about 20-years old) Krell CAD 300, Yamaha CDS2000 and sometimes Arcam  CD 73. Krell has  the oldest burr-brown dac which gives a reasonably good uncolored reproduction (unlike newer ess ones). But I use Krell basically as a transport with Raymio DAP 777, that somehow compensates inaccuracies in the interpretation of digital signal. I think I can accept the resultant analog sound and not worry too much about the accuracy any more. So I intent to continue to use CD source. Streaming is not good for me, its like driving a car with an automatic transmission vs manual one.

And I can avoid use of LPs as Raymio DAC settles the problem with analog interpretation.
I wish I still had my Philips CD-80. I had it modded by Stan Warren and can't, for the life of me, remember why I gave it away.

All the best,
Nonoise
@nonoise, the CD-80 was built like a tank, wasn’t it? Made everything else seem like a toy. That is, until I got an Esoteric ;-).
@niodari never heard of Raymio before. How good is the analog sound of this particular Dac