Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

A JVC unit, for the longest time, I only had just one cd. The music would skip sometimes and I thought it was the player,after all cd's were say to be perfect in every way. I gave the player away to a relative, and went back to lp's, only to find it was the disc itself and not the player. He still has the jvc cd player.

Mine was a Sony D5 portable CD player purchased new in 1986. It still works to this day! Amazing longevity after all it's been through. I bought during my college partying daze.

Yes, the Magnavox CDB 650 is still being used today. Other components have come and gone.

Philips CDP101. I bought it June 1984. It is still in the family. It impressed me for being different than vinyl but in reality now 24 years later I realize that vinyl is still king but CD's will too always have a place for me.

Denon DCD 1500 II.

This was at a time cd had become religion. I remember a magazine that as a matter of principle (!) would list any cd-player it reviewed in its reference class table since this was the ultimative sound, always reproducible, always better than anything achievable with analogue gear, forever, amen!
I thought the Denon was fine, different from but at par with the Technics SL-QL1 'table with Ortofon TMC200 we owned, certainly not "lightyears better" as I was supposed to find it if I wished to belong to the knowledgeable crowd. Hah, even that magazine has come a long way since then.