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Jun 14
Technics SL-P1200
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.
era:1980s
Jun 12
Philips CD880
The CD player that made digital sound like analog — and still does.
era:1980s
Jun 11
Rotel RCD-855
Rotel's power-first design made the RCD-855 the antidote to clinical digital – a CD player that swings.
era:1980s
Jun 8
Sony CDP-101
The first CD player that brought digital home — and still sounds more analog than you'd think.
era:1980s
Jun 3
Marantz CD-63 SE
Marantz's answer to analog snobbery: a CD player that made digital sound like something worth defending.
era:1980s
May 29
Sony Discman D-50
Sony's first Discman made the Walkman obsolete overnight — if you could afford the CD collection to go with it.
era:1980s
May 28
Burmester 001 MKII
German perfection in a black box: the CD player that proves the format isn't dead, just expensive.
era:2000s
May 28
Marantz CD-12
Marantz's 1993 masterpiece proved a CD player could sound like music, not data.
era:1990s
May 25
Accuphase DP-100 CD Player
Accuphase's DP-100 proves the '80s Japanese obsession with CD players wasn't madness—it was engineering religion.
era:1980s
May 9
Marantz SA-14S1 SACD Player
If the CD-94 was Marantz finding its soul in digital, the SA-14S1 is what happened when they refused to let it go.
era:2000s
May 9
Philips CD-880
Philips built the CD, then built this — and somehow everyone forgot to notice.
era:1990s
May 9
Marantz CD-94 CD Player
The CD-94 is the machine that proves the 90s Marantz house sound was never just about vinyl.
era:1990s
Apr 21
Philips CD-950 Compact Disc Player
Philips built the CD-950 to prove that digital playback could have a soul — and they weren't wrong.
era:1980s
Apr 13
Marantz SA-1
The SA-1 isn't Marantz being ambitious — it's Marantz being obsessive, and the difference shows.
era:2000s
Apr 13
Philips CD-650
Philips built the CD format and then built the player that proved they actually understood what they'd invented.
era:1980s
Apr 13
Marantz CD-6
The CD-6 is proof that the format was never the problem—the machines just weren't good enough yet.
era:1990s
Apr 7
Accuphase DP-90
The DP-90 doesn't make CD sound better. It makes you wonder what you've been missing for thirty years
era:1990s
Apr 7
Philips CD100
Before the CD-63 became a legend, Philips was already winning the digital war from a basement in Eindhoven
era:1980s
Apr 7
Marantz CD-63
The CD-63 is proof that the best time to buy a CD player was thirty years after everyone gave up on them
era:1990s