The Technics SL-P1200 is a CD player built like a battle tank, with a quartz-locked transport that makes it the poor man’s reference transport.

The CD player that made digital sound like analog — and still does.

Rotel's power-first design made the RCD-855 the antidote to clinical digital – a CD player that swings.

The first CD player that brought digital home — and still sounds more analog than you'd think.

Marantz's answer to analog snobbery: a CD player that made digital sound like something worth defending.

Sony's first Discman made the Walkman obsolete overnight — if you could afford the CD collection to go with it.

German perfection in a black box: the CD player that proves the format isn't dead, just expensive.

Marantz's 1993 masterpiece proved a CD player could sound like music, not data.

Accuphase's DP-100 proves the '80s Japanese obsession with CD players wasn't madness—it was engineering religion.

If the CD-94 was Marantz finding its soul in digital, the SA-14S1 is what happened when they refused to let it go.

Philips built the CD, then built this — and somehow everyone forgot to notice.

The CD-94 is the machine that proves the 90s Marantz house sound was never just about vinyl.

Philips built the CD-950 to prove that digital playback could have a soul — and they weren't wrong.

The SA-1 isn't Marantz being ambitious — it's Marantz being obsessive, and the difference shows.

Philips built the CD format and then built the player that proved they actually understood what they'd invented.

The CD-6 is proof that the format was never the problem—the machines just weren't good enough yet.

The DP-90 doesn't make CD sound better. It makes you wonder what you've been missing for thirty years

Before the CD-63 became a legend, Philips was already winning the digital war from a basement in Eindhoven

The CD-63 is proof that the best time to buy a CD player was thirty years after everyone gave up on them