Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

My first and still ticking...Onkyo DX-C606...1992

I was just cleaning up some old gear to sell and discovered i still have my first cd player, a Phillips CD101 (Anyone know anything about these). I hooked it up to my Marantz 2325 and i think it sounds better than all my new stuff. Just goes to show ya, you should clean your closets regularly.

Mine was a Philips CD104, 14-bit resolution and 4x oversampling. I bought it in 1985 only because the vinyl being sold by the majors at that time was rubbish - thin, light, and riddled with dust-attracting static. But despite the cheapness and poor specs of the Philips it was respectable. I recently found some cassette tapes I recorded with it and they are definitely listenable. Which is more than I can say for some of the cdp's I've heard between then and now.

going strong still, a little noisy but easily drown with the music.

It was the Adcom GCD75(I think). It had an A-B button to repetition of any section of a track that you wanted. The FIRST time I saw a CD was in '86(I was 25 at the time). There was a girl that lived across the street that I was trying to "Get Busy" with. When i saw the silver disc, she said "Watch this" and threw it across the room. To my amazement, it played perfectly when inserted in the CDP.