Do You Remember Your First CD Player?

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.

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.

Ditto TVAD ... an old JVC ... and I still have it in a 'background' system, and it is still working.

I'm almost embarrased to say it, but I've been lurking off and on at Audiogon for years. This is the first thread that basically "compelled" me to actually post. I smiled as I read through all of the entries ... and had to say something..

My first CD player was a Denon DCD-1500 in 1986. Basically I ate potato chips and steamed corn for months in order to afford it... I still have it, and it's interesting that everyone who purchased one of these says that it still works. My second was an Adcom GCD-600, my third is a Wadia 850, and my fourth is a Denon 2900. The last two are both still actively in service.

My first CD was Bob Dylan's three CD box set Biograph, incidentally purchased prior to my first CD player.

Sony CDP-610ES back in the mid-1980s. Bought each Telarc CD as it was released -- I remember the store used to keep their CDs behind glass.

Perfect sound forever. :-)