Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

I read reviews after reviews on cd players and came away with the Mission DAD 7000 in 1986.

Never gave me a bit of trouble.In fact, is still working to this very day.

I'll throw my mits in the ring. It was a "Fisher" Can't remember the model # I'm thinking it was around 1983-84. It was a piece of junk, but @ the time I thought it was so wonderful.

Having a CD player vs. a TT? No more cleaning records....Also, I remember my old JVC receiver (40 WPC) with nice walnut veneer sides w/ real glass faaceplate for the AM/FM section. Can't forget about my Cerwin Vega's U-123! I thought I was GOD!

How things change.

How embarrassing. This shows both how young I am and how poor I was for a rather long time. I got my first cd in 1994 when a store I was working at just out of college was selling off a few cd's it played in the store for a $1 each. Even though I wasn't yet a jazz fan I bought a Wynton Marsalis disc and a Stan Getz disc. However I couldn't afford a cd player until 1999 or 2000 I can't quite remember. At that time though I decided to go whole hog and start building my "dream stereo" so I bought a new original Rega Planet and haven't looked back. With my latest purchase, hasn't arrived yet, that would make 6 cd players in about 5 years. Sick, eh?

PBB- Yamaha CDX1?

Mine was a Yamaha CD-X1 (along with my first CD - Peter Gabriel's "Security") in 1984 for $400. Amazingly, I have not replaced it until recently with a NAD C542. Absolutely stunning difference in detail and low frequency clarity. I do not miss the Yamaha in the least - though it served me well.

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