Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

Back in 1986 I ordered a Technics SLP-100 cd player (silver) from the States as Canadian prices were double. Was so excited when I got it!! I remember it has super fast access to tracks, but boy.... sure sucked when it came to audio! Bled my ears for a few years with that piece of crap till it started skipping like a pre-teen with a rope. Cleaned the lens, re-lubed the laser slider track and then gave the piece of crap to a friend (poor guy... but it was free). Then I bought a Mission Cyrus PCMII. Great machine for its time. I'm up to a Meridian 602 with a 606 DAC. 10 year old gear that sounds STUNNING. If anyone has a spare laser for the 602 I will buy it. NOW! My machine doesn't skip, never has (knock on wood).

Still got it in the basement - on a shelf - collecting dust. I held off forever before buying one, so I missed the bad digital phase. It was still a cheapo NEC unit and doesn't have a digital out, or I would have converted it to a transport by now.

Enjoy,
Bob

I do not remember the model #'s of my first two cd players but the second two were a Hafler player and the JVC XLZ 1050 which was the first player I had owned that had an obvious sonic advantage over the others I had owned.

The first player I heard at a dealer that made my jaw drop was a Wadia ran through Levinson gear and Thiel 3.6's when they first came out.

Greg

It was a boom box around 1992.

Repost: I posted earlier that my first CD player was one of the very first models, mostly discreet circuitry! Sanyo toaster tilt drawer.
That lasted almost the year, and broke, under warranty, got fixed and sold it. Got the dreaded Sony 101 P.O.S.
It had a flaw, but the dealer said they all did that so... (Sometimes it wouldn't start a disc... and you would have to reload the disc... a lot!)
That hunk of garbage made way for a CLASSIC: The Phillips 880. On the cover of Audio Magazine and everything. A very nice player.
Added a Sony ES87 changer... years go by....
Finally the Phillips stops reading CDs. Ditto the Sony.
Try a Sony ES555 400 CD machine. Total garbage, return it.
Go for Rotel transport and Adcom DA-600.
Then a used Sony ES7 5 disc and a Sony ES9 5 disc, then get the Sony ES SACD777, for redbook CD playing.
Sold the (now POS sounding) Rotel. (in comparison to the Sony 55lb mother of all CD players)
Then (NOW!!!) I got the vinyl bug!!!
So I got sitting around:
Sony ES9 CD 5 disc changer
Sony ES7 CD 5 disc changer
Sony SACD ES 777 top loader
Technics DVD A-10 (which also plays CDs)
Adcom DA-600
Adcom DA-700
And all I do is play records... vinyl records...
(though the Sony ES7 is on all day every day playing the same five CD for YEARS... to keep my pets happy while I am at work!)