Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

I believe it was the first 4x sampling CD player made. About 1982. I remember the 1st Phillips, Sony, and Phase Linear were the only players in existance when I bought it.

Nakamichi OMS 7, still have it but of course it doesn't work. It worked flawlessly for 13 years and started skipping one day. Sound wasn't too bad with 16X oversampling. Went back to vinyl though and occasionally listen to redbooks on a Sony XA20 ES

In 1983 or so, I bought an early Philips unit followed by a Sony Discman in 1984 (that one was really ghastly!). The first good sounding player was a Tandberg 3015 I picked up in 1985, to the best of my recollection. I really liked that one. There was also an early Sony carousel player in my system around that time too, but I've pretty much blocked that one out.

Mine was an Adcom GCD-575 that I paid $650! for in about 1989. It was head and shoulders above the cheaper drives I listened to, and served me well for over 15 years. Just last fall the transport finally gave up the ghost, and I replaced it with a $250 Onix XCD-88. The Onix blows it away, and I haven't even started with the mods yet. :-)

My first CD player was in 1987. I don't remember which company anymore even though they were still very new. I do remember my next one after it though somewhere between late 1988 and early 1989. My parents bought me a Carver CD player along with an integrated Carver amp and some JBL floorstanding speakers as a holiday gift. My friends brother sold audio equipment and I begged for months to get a system from him at a good discount.

I'll never forget that system, it was my first real Hi-Fi system. My really good/close friends still remember the "Sonic Hologram" TM because of how great that system sounded at the time in our age group (I was only 15). Spending that kind of money on equipment at that age was unheard of among my peers, and so was the sound quality of my system compared to everyone else's dinky one-piece-asian-stereo-stack.

Thus, an addiction was started, and I'm not referring to just the audio equipment (read below). Of course, compared to my parent's LP collection and whole house Hi-Fi system it probably wasn't anything special. At the time though, it was everything to me. I spent most afternoons floating in the digital aether on my bed, in my room after school.