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Personal CD player evolution

To take a cue from the previous threads 'amp' & 'speaker' personal evolution, I bid you this question...

for me it was a Hitachi small black box circa 1983, bought from a Luskin's discount electronics store (I think I paid around $250), then...

-Yamaha COX-700U (1985 or so, still in use by my father)
-Carver ? model to match a Carver amp I had at the time
-Rega original Planet
-Cary 303/100
-Cary 306/200
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jb8312
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1. The very first consumer SONY CD in 1982 ($500)

2. Luxman CD112 ($850)

3. Rega Planet ($895)

4. Rega Planet as transport with Perp Tech P1A/3A & PS (add $900 to #3, pretty nice addition & well worth it)

5. Naim CDX2 ($5350)

6. Naim CDX2 with XPS II ( add $4950 to #5 and yes, its very a completly different player then #5)

7. I cannot see moving on from the current rig for a long time, as a reviewer for positive-feedback I have heard a lot...but I just dig the Naim CDPs espcially with the XPSII.

John
tvad
9,467 posts
 
-JVC Something-or-other entry level player c.1985
-Sony C77ES Changer c.1992 (still own it)
-Modwright Sony 999ES - pre outboard power supply
-Electrocompaniet EMC 1-UP SE (later modified by Empirical Audio)
-Marantz SA-14
-APL Philips SACD1000
-Exemplar Denon 2900
-APL Denon 3910
-Exemplar Denon 3910

That's way too many...
:)
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warrenh
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Can't remember the dates, but here goes:

-Nad--cd players were just out this year--had to have one-

-Pioneer Elite-don't remember the number, but it was the first of their Elite line-

-Micro Mega Stage 2-

-Audio Aero Prima MkII-

-Eexemplar Denon 3910-
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