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Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

I had owned the first of the first. I purchased the unit in 1982. It was a Sony CDP 101. It was the most obnoxious, raspy, annoying, piercing, grading, non-musical component I had ever heard.

Also, at the time, the complete CD library that was available consisted of about 15 CDs.

Now? I listen to my newest CD rig more than I listen to my turntable. My, how times have changed.

What was your first CD player and when did you purchase it?
buscis2
paulj1x
1 posts
 
In my closet I still have serial number 33 of the first 100 CDP-101s imported into the U.S. There were 10 CD's available at the time, I still have 3 of them. One was Miles Davis, Man With the Horn. Does anybody think this is worth anything?

paul
couvajazz
45 posts
 
No, I don't recall the name of the CD player, but the year was '84. I recall the size was an odd one, perhaps 2/3 the width of a typical modern player. Some of my earliest discs included Tricycle - Flim & the BBs, a Sheffield Labs sampler, Man With he Horn - Miles Davis, Warning - Billy Cobham, Think of One - Wynton Marsalis (The only one of those early disc that I still have).
ehoehn
169 posts
 
Mine was a Teac I purchased in 1987
tobias
1,534 posts
 
I bought my first CDP late in 1999. Talk about early adopters. My s.o. was so happy--she could now buy music and listen to it (she'd been afraid to use the Linn Sondek).

It was the turn of the millennium and we danced it in with the player--a Cambridge Discmagic transport and Dacmagic 1 converter. Horrible converter, sound like a plush toy, all warm and fuzzy. Turned it in on the same company's IsoMagic as soon as I could.
tvad
9,467 posts
 
I don't remember my first CDP exactly. It was a JVC starter model
purchased in the mid 80's...probably the first or second year CD players hit the
consumer market. I do remember my second CD player: a Sony C77ES
changer purchased in December of 1991. Musical and listenable all day
long. I still have it.
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