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The Compact Disc revolution: Part 1: 20 iconic CD players

In the mid 1970’s the engineers at Philips came up with the concept of a ‘compact disc’ that would replace vinyl because it was; of ‘superior’ quality, smaller, quieter (no clicks or crackles), indestructible, portable and just ‘better’. By 1982 their idea became a reality. In 1983/84 over 400,000 CD Players were sold in the US alone! This is the story of how the CD came about, the technology behind it, and the rapid development that ensued. I nominate 20 iconic CD players from across the decades.

 

 

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I was talking with the owner of a record

label recently and he was telling me

that the sale of CDs has started to go

up again and I thought well that’s great

news because I’ve always liked CDs I

didn’t like them when they first came

out but I got to like them and nowadays

you can buy them second hand for almost

nothing and it is a medium which will

basically last forever and can give a

lot of pleasure especially with the

little booklets where you can read up

about the recording engineers and the

musicians and the instruments and all

that extra metadata that yeah I was

pleasantly surprised

so I thought well maybe it’s interesting

to look at CDs CD players and make a

little three-part

video of the the story if you like so

here we are in part one where I will

share with you a little bit of

background on the development of the CD

why it was invented what were the

circumstances for hide it for the

project team

and a little bit about the launch and

then in this video I thought I would

talk about 20 classic CD players now

okay don’t don’t shoot me I’m not an

expert on this I’ve just made a

cross-section of CDs over time from the

very beginning right the way through to

the current day

and I thought well that might be

interesting enough and then in part two

I’m going to invite some people over

probably at different times and we’re

going to listen to a lot of different CD

players and try and analyze with and

answer the question could a 30 year old

CD player or even older

outperform a modern one

and that we will explore and I will use

as I say a group of people young and old

and then in part three I’m going to look

at a few of them in specific detail and

kind of do a little mini review of the

ones that I think score the best in the

in in part two and then have a little

summary in that one so so here we go

let’s get started I think we need to go

to the mid-1970s for our beginning of

our story because the engineers at

Phillips down the road here in Levin in

Belgium

had been playing with digital signal

processing and they were looking for

something to replace vinyl and weren’t

we all If we’re honest with ourselves

those of us who will have been owning

vinyl for a long time well we used to

get fed up with the crackles and pops

and the surface noise especially if

you’re unlucky enough to buy a piece of

vinyl which was a bad pressing I mean I

remember my friend buying the Paul

Simon’s still crazy after all these

years album and I bought it and his

pressing was way better than mine it

wasn’t consistent so here we were are in

mid 70s the Philips engineers

saying look how can we how can we make

something that sounds better that’s a

lot smaller so we can reduce the size of

equipment that could be portable

that would never wear out

um and obviously could withstand big

temperature changes because one of the

things is obviously in vinyl in the very

hot countries and in difficult climates

it was a no-go and also wouldn’t it be

great if you could carry it around

because the Phillips team had already

invented the cassette which was very

successful but you know just didn’t

sound good

um so they were looking for all of these

things all in one

and a guy called

York senu was heading up the Phillips

team to develop what they came the

compact disc

um and it’s quite interesting really how

these things work because apparently in

one day in one meeting they were saying

well what size should we make the hole

in the middle of the CD and he put his

hand in his pocket and he pulled out a

10 cents coin a Dutch coin and um he

said that will do make it that size and

and this is sort of how things began

well

budgets were obviously very big in those

days because By 1979

Phillips had not only developed the CD

but they’d also developed the laser

system and everything of working it out

and could actually record digital music

onto a CD and play it back and so

excitedly they had this little device

called the pink culture they shot off to

Japan to show this technology to other

manufacturers and if you look at it in

retrospect

this was I think as I say 79 they first

went there the first CD machines get

released in October and November 82.

I’ll come back to that in a minute

which is incredible if you think about

it

but in 83 84 there were 400

000 CD players sold in the United States

alone

so the opportunity was massive but

interestingly enough when Europe and his

team arrived in Japan the other big

manufacturers were not interested there

was only one who said yes yes yes will

work with you to make a global standard

and that was sunny and probably it was

because they had already started to

develop a digital recording process it

was very basic we use it videotape and

recording dots of light basically but

they had actually developed a recording

digital recording process so this was

perfect

so they obviously signed some kind of

agreements and said right let’s get to

work

Now by October

um let me just get my notes Here make

sure I don’t say anything wrong and if I

do say something wrong please say you

know I’ve been

doing some research but I’m not an

expert in this topic so forgive me if I

refer back okay so

the first CD player ever was the pink

culture which is what their nickname for

it which was a development model which

Phillips used and took with them to um

Japan

but the very first CD player itself was

a CD 100 now it was released after the

Sony player now I’ll talk about Sony

play in a minute and this is interesting

because the engineers at Phillips had

worked out how to map sort of digital

music

and they had come up with 14 bits as the

basis

and their machine had a chip that was

just 14 bits but Sony developed on their

own 16 bits now it wasn’t necessarily

because there was better quality well

there’s lots of stories about it and

some say that Sunny did it deliberately

so that they could get their product to

Market I don’t know what the truth of

these things are but the fact is that

Sony did get there first and they

released in Japan but they held back

because Sony and Phillips decided to

launch together worldwide

so the first CD player that I want to

talk about is the cd100 which finally

gets launched in November 82 and the

worldwide launch in March of 83

now this machine as you can see was a

top loading machine and Marantz launched

it as well Marantz were owned by Philips

I believe at this time I might be wrong

correct me if I’m wrong and they called

it the cd63 and Grundig released one

called the cd30 and

um so but this device had some

components from Sony in it I believe but

obviously it had the very famous cdmo

Drive which Philips very quickly when

they went into mass production updated

to this what they call the CDM one and

that was used throughout industry

um and as I say it was basically an 8 to

14 bit machine

and it had an amazing laser system and I

think we should show this here because

the laser used as little as one

milliwatt but Phillips developed this

system first of course so they developed

this laser coming up onto the disk and

there was little indentations in the

disk and these These are tiny I mean I

can’t remember exactly how it’s it’s

basically the beam focuses on something

that’s one micron wide so you know

obviously the little indentation is a

little bit wider than that to allow for

tracking so the beam goes up it hits the

disc if there’s an indentation it sends

the the beam right back down and it

reads on a photoelectric cell and that

goes on or off and the amazing thing is

that just by doing a series of on offs

you could map

all of music and you could even map the

left and right channel I find that quite

incredible to all this day so you had a

really fancy Road and stock lens it was

beautifully constructed and it was used

for a long time but then at the same

time this is the machine that Sony

released which is they called it the CDP

101 and I’m told that that’s because

they wanted to talk about ones and zeros

and they thought it was interesting to

call it the 101 it was released in Japan

in 82 October 82 and worldwide together

with Phillips in March 83. so this was a

front loader much better to put into a

rack system and interesting in those

days the DAC chips the digital audio

converting chips were so expensive

excuse me

the digital to audio conversion chips

were so expensive

that they only put one in each machine

instead of one per Channel

a 16-bit digital over sampling now

this was a nightmare for Philips and it

meant that was the reason why they had

to delay because

the CD was 16 bit on the 14-bit machine

wouldn’t work so what Philips had to do

was

urgently come up with a solution to how

to get theirs to work into 16-bit and

this is where Innovation and human

Ingenuity is so incredible you could say

it was a disaster because to produce a

new chip would have taken well months

and months which they clearly didn’t

have so the engineers found a very

clever way of saying okay what we will

do is we will work on the bit level and

we will over sample and we will sample

it up and then bring it back down to 16

bit without having to change the chip

and that was incredible and it meant

that we had two

forms of development if you like which

have continued to this day where you

have some manufacturers doing lots of

oversampling and others saying no no

let’s just try and get it read right

first time so

so there was no oversampling in the Sony

machine and the list price was about 730

dollars which is in that time was a lot

of money I mean it’s incredible and it

had a multi-pin socket on the back I

haven’t got a photograph of the actual

socket but you can see where it is and

the idea was with this multi-pin socket

was that Sony thought that maybe there

would be video coming from DVD CDs in

the future so they allowed for this to

be plugged into some kind of video

decoder but of course that never

happened so that’s kind of it and Sonia

developed their own chip in that time so

from their first meeting with Phillips

in 79 not only are they developed their

chips developed their own laser system

and their own system

and a whole machine you know it’s

incredible incredible you have to stand

back in in awe of how that how the

Japanese were able to at that time with

their skill and and project management

skills to develop something in that

period amazing now my third one is the

Marantz cd34 which came out in 1985.

now in this day there was a lot of

interchangeable parts with Philips and

actually they used to say under made in

Japan also made in Belgium because I

would think there was so much and this

had the four times over sampling because

I think it was probably still using a

14-bit chip I’m not sure about that

exactly someone can correct me

um it was a beautiful strong aluminum

chassis built to last

um you know the beginning of something

that we can recognize as a real CD

player after the Sony one

now this is another piece obviously as I

say in 83 84 there were 400 000 sold in

America alone and you can imagine that

the people at Technics

suddenly woke up and thought you know

and not just Technics course all the

other manufacturers I said right we what

are we going to do are we going to use

the CD mechanisms from Philips well they

probably weren’t available because

Philips were flat out making as many as

they possibly could so they decided to

design their own CD player bottom up and

every every component that went in the

Technics machine from mitchita was

actually developed and made by the

corporation for themselves and I just

find that wonderful they’ve come up with

a different sleeker typical Philips look

and feel and they call that the slp3 and

that came in 1985 I say and was a very

expensive machine because obviously you

think of the cost of the engineering

they weren’t just engineering you know

one component there was a whole invent

number five for me is the teac P1 D1

1987 and this kind of formed the basic

for the later esoteric models and

esoteric was the sort of very high-end

um Tea Act but in the beginning teak was

high-end and they even had the word I

think esoteric on the front now the

whole concept of this was the separate

boxes which we see today in many designs

and I will come back to them later on

and we will look at a few in in number

two and and part three as well

um and here you see they they designed

this to be vibration free they think

that vibration is a real problem and

they really want to make this thing

vibration three and it’s very very solid

and typically you can say over

engineered in many ways for the Japanese

but this is early days right

so number six is the Sony CDP

x7es now I’m spelling that one out fully

it comes we’re in 1989 now

and this has to be in a way the Rolls

Royce of CD players and I think if you

own one of these now you’re a very lucky

person these are very very expensive

today on the second hand Market

there are a few others that are a little

bit a little bit more expensive excuse

me

but this this one is really incredible

look inside it the copper line the whole

system they separate the power supplies

they have their own dedicated

Transformers you see them digital for

just for the digital circuits they’re

here they’re saying what can we do to

make it better and every single

component has been looked at and and

optimized probably regardless of whether

it makes us an audible sound Improvement

they just think well if we make this

thing perfect

then it can’t sound worse right

so this was their Flagship model and it

had a really a sort of metal beam

structure for the chassis to make it

really solid and one very very

interesting point it had balanced

outputs in 1989 balanced outputs I don’t

think anyone would have been using them

in those days but it was foreseen and

it’d be very interesting today to

actually have one of these things and

try it out and see how the ballast

outputs work

number seven from 1990 we’ve moved ahead

a little bit now to the Meridian 206.

this I think was really really ahead of

its time I mean when you when you look

at the the design of this thing with its

two separate chassis and the DAC and the

electronics and one for the mechanism I

love this you know he said the DAC and

the electronics in one box the mechanism

in the other and they used what they

called there was a firm called Crystal I

don’t know if they exist still and they

had a bit stream chip and they use for

this and these these units could be

bolted together it was very very

Innovative work although a bit crude I

think compared to some of the designs

we’ve seen before I mean crude in terms

of you know the look and the feel of of

the of the finish on the outside but a

very capable machine

um so that was that was the the Meridian

now we’re on to the Yamaha number eight

and this is now

1991. okay

and the Yamaha called this monster the

GT cd1 well cd1 is obvious GT doesn’t

mean Grand tourismo no no no no no no

this means

gigantic and tremendous I mean

that’s hilarious right but

if you look at it

it’s probably the most beautiful CD

player ever made right

and it was built on a non-floating rigid

structure so the whole of this structure

was about solidity Mass

no vibrations I mean where have we heard

this before I mean this is all coming

from turntable uh ethos isn’t it it used

a three-beam laser so the first CD

players were using one single beam but

they worked out with us three beams they

could work out the positioning of the

laser and also you know back Skip and do

all the other things because you know

when you have to go back it’s a bad bit

of CD a bit of dirt they can back Skip

and pick up the data from somewhere else

put it in so there was a advantages in

going to three beams and this one

certainly had it

at a high torque brushless motor where

did we hear about this before

turntable technology of course and it

had again balanced and RCA outputs what

did it weigh 24 kilos I mean that is a

bag of cement it’s incredible so it’s a

beautiful looking thing though I mean I

would I would like to have one I think

it would be nice if we could make a pair

of sibelius speakers to match the

woodwork a really beautiful thing so my

number nine is the Denon

dps1 another gargantuan giganticum

machine it’s a it’s from 1993 it’s a

transport and they have a separate DAC

now the transport weighs 17 kilos and

attack weight 20 so you’re 37 kilos of

Technology here

um it’s again designed to eliminate

vibration which they thought was the the

enemy of the CD

um the sandcast alloy chassis and

constructions five digital outputs which

it had coaxial toss AES BNC Optical St I

mean brilliant I mean it was really

moved forwards the CD mechanism was

built by a company called Victor and it

used the same one as the previous Yamaha

it was they shared the same one

obviously this was a piece of

engineering a wonderful piece of

engineering

but now I want to move to 1993.

and the complete antithesis of what

we’ve seen recently

for my number 10 it’s the quad cd67

now this is typical quad British

understatement there’s no buttons or

controls at all on this device there is

actually a secret little button just in

the front underneath where you can push

to switch it on and the little black

triangle area is actually to if you push

that you can eject the CD and put it

back in why is that it’s because

basically

um Patrick Walker didn’t what Peter

Walker didn’t want dirty finger marks

all over his nice equipment so he

designed remote controls for all of that

process but in theory you could put the

CD in and you could close the door and

that was it

now the in why do I list this one here

because it’s small it’s not particularly

heavy and at the time it got rave

reviews for its sound quality they were

saying things about how natural and and

sounding it was today we would say it

was very vinyl sounding it was they say

it was smooth and the mid-range and the

voices were lovely

um and and there was much less talk

about the technology although they had

brought out a CD player before I think

in 1989 if I’m remember correctly and it

looked exactly the same as this and it

was called the cd66

um and that basically had all Philips

interior workings but by now they

developed all their own Electronics

still using the Philips machine

there’ll be the mechanics but the

electronics was 16 times over sampling

they had actually done sorry not 16. 64

times over sampling of course an 18-bit

streaming they were able to cable with

and the total harmonic distortion on the

on this machine was probably just as

good as any other at zero zero zero two

zero zero two

um the crosstalk was incredible figures

because everybody liked looking at

figures and comparing figures it was

more than 100 DB I mean it was basically

unmeasurable and it had just it was

considered and still is considered by

many to be one of the best sounding CD

players ever and I’ve got one so I’m

going to bring it over to the Listening

Room and when we have the sessions for

part two I’m going to put that with some

of the other machines just to see if

it’s true maybe maybe it’s not

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number 11 is Cyrus now the I put these

two together because they both came out

very similar the Cyrus made their first

CD in 1994 and Cyrus were based in

Huntington and sober quad they were both

based in Huntington which is a town sort

of near Cambridge in the UK

and

Cyrus were owned by Mission and you know

Mission from their white fronted

loudspeakers they’re famous loudspeakers

Mission Electronics

brought out a brand called Cyrus and

they made these lovely what I call half

width machines CD players and and

amplifiers and of course when I first

saw them I thought they can’t be serious

amplifiers they’re too small but of

course Cyrus is a very serious company

who made great equipment and I’ve got in

touch with them and they’ve brought me

over some of their more recent machines

and those are some of the ones we’re

going to look at in number in in two and

part three as well so

it’s a top loader of course this very

first one and interestingly enough it

has an external power supply and that’s

why I’ve included it because Cyrus

really believe that taking all the power

supply out of these machines makes them

much quieter and they use go for what

they call first time right you know read

it right and that’s what they want to do

and they’re still working to that

philosophy today which is great I was

talking to Surrey one of the r d

Engineers from them but more for that in

part three

so you know they used the the in the

first one the CDM uh from Philips the

machine the version nine uh the

mechanics and why not it was considered

an industry uh standard by then

Now for Something

Completely Different

um number 12 is the Bo sound 9000 and it

came out in 1996.

and look at it

it’s

wonderful now it’s very in your face

it’s very I I see it as Scandinavian and

it’s a sort of you imagine white walled

interiors and very sort of sleek

furniture and yeah I don’t know wooden

floors and and it was designed by a guy

called David Lewis and it was launched

in 96 as I say and it has this Sledge on

it that could move across and pick up to

go to the CD and let the CD Spin and

play the CD along and it could be

displayed sort of vertically

horizontally I’m told it could be

mounted in eight different ways goodness

knows how that was or how it worked but

you know was it design visual design

over technology I don’t know but I have

a sneaking suspicion that because it was

a CD it probably sounded pretty good

maybe as good as any other but we will

find out in part three in part two sorry

what the difference is in sound between

these machines

if I don’t get a bno at least we can

compare with very different types of

machines

for number 13 we have the Riga planet

now this is an interesting one because

it came out in 1997. and Riga had been

making their planar planar turntables

for a long time and they were very very

late coming to the CD world and if you

think about it and if you think about

the owner and designer for the business

Roy Gandhi and how serious he was about

vinyl he didn’t actually like CDs when

they first came out and a lot of us

didn’t either

and I think that’s why he delayed and he

was watching and looking and listening

at what everybody else was doing and at

a certain point he must have thought to

himself you know what I can do better

than that and what I’m going to do is

I’m going to bring a CD player to Market

that will be reliable

that will sound really really good

and it won’t be too expensive it won’t

be ridiculous money

and so they were reluctant late adopters

I think

um but there’s nice little touches about

it like in the top there was a clear

it’s top loader of course you can see in

the picture here but there was a quite a

clear vinyl

cover so you could see the CD in it I

mean how many times

how many times have you one you see

there’s a CD in the in your player but

you don’t know and you can see oh it’s

got 14 tracks so oh yeah it might be

Beatles please please me so you know Roy

had seen that he thought no let’s make

the experience as close to a turntable

experience as possible so you push a

button at the top nicely lifts up it

comes up nicely you put the CD on and

the top goes down nice and gently and

clicks into position

beautifully done

um all damped and then he worked with

Burr Brown the chip people to to come up

with something really really nice and

they came up with a something that I

thought that he thought would

um be good value for money as I say and

and just sound great and work for year

upon year upon year

so

let’s take a little pause here just to

move forwards 20 years

because we could look at every single

CD player that was invented and there

was so many in that 20 years that we now

move right the way forward to 2016 or

thereabouts and back to quad let’s see

what quad we’re doing from the Sleek

very plain 67 looking machine they come

out with something called the artera

play now I’ve chosen this because I I

have one at home in my one of my

listening rooms at home and

I find it a really good machine I’ve got

the play plus and this is just the

standard one came out and they used the

saber DAC

from ESS saber it’s a very famous deck

for those of you who are interested in

the numbers it’s an

es9018 Dag it was 32 bits of 384

kilohertz so now we’re going right up

from the 14 bits of Phillips to 38

potentials and it can go all the way up

to

dsd256 a digital inputs it had optical

of course outputs it got the RCA outputs

got balanced outputs just like those

machines from a long time early but by

now in 2016 balance is beginning to take

off

um digital outputs you know it’s it’s

just a very very nicely made machine but

it’s basically a pre-amplifier and I

like that because the early machines

like the the Sony X7 series

had variable outputs they put in

variable outputs and that meant you

could connect directly

to a power amplifier if you wanted to or

at least you could

when you plug them into a pre-amplifier

you could balance the the sound level so

it matched your turntable or matched

your tuner or your reel-to-reel tape

machine or your cassette machine so when

you switched from one medium to another

you didn’t have these massive changes in

volume I like that I like that and

you’ll see in the one of the later in in

part two and part three I’ve chosen a

project

um

CD player to to look at because it

matches has a very dedicated preamp

which also has a variable output and

it’s very useful for that purpose

so let’s get back to this one number 15

is the Griffon ethos CD player da

processor I mean look at Griffon I mean

they I have a reputation for being not

just outrageously expensive which they

are I mean this is I think 39

000 this this CD player it’s an

incredible amount of money I might be

wrong but it’s a lot of money but they

take great pride in building something

to the Perfection level and something

that is stylistically unique when you

see a griffon product you know

immediately that’s what it is and people

were very proudly buy these because why

shouldn’t they if they have the money

and they want to do this

um this is something that sits in your

room forever now they use in this device

not their own um

see the reading mechanism but they use

one from a company called streaming

unlimited and they’re from Austria and

it’s it’s this this player is obviously

dual mono Class A out

um and as I say it’s an extremely

expensive machine

um but it’s followed

by my number 16 which is the project CD

box

rs2t and this is just a transport it’s a

typical little project a little box as

you see the square box shape aluminum

also made in Austria

um

and it uses exactly the same mechanism

as that Griffon it uses the CD Pro 8

from the same company with the blue

tiger CD 84 Servo board so technically

the workings of that transport are the

same as the Griffin

it has i2s Master Clock syncing with its

a pre-amplifier of course and the DAC so

that you the DAC can can link and clock

and control everything so has an

external power supply like the rigas do

and it’s sorry the Cyrus uh so not rigor

Cyrus and

it may not look impressive but

technically it should sound really

impressive and that’s what we’re going

to find out in part two and maybe again

in part three you know so that is it

this is the way it works is it that’s my

project

and now for number 17 is the latest

Cyrus because I think it’s interesting

to see how they evolved over the years

because there’s not so many companies

where you can see this fact that they’ve

stuck to their guns you know okay now

it’s front loaded

um again they have the same philosophy

keep the power supply outside you you

can plug in a power but

use an external power supply and they

have it’s not just one voltage going in

they have different voltages going into

the the different components and I think

it’s a very interesting approach and I’m

looking forward to listening to One

um it arrived this morning so it’s again

twin analog outputs all the rest of it

the sort of things that you would expect

and you can see that the design hasn’t

changed massively over the years and

it’s so typically Cyrus

now it’s it’s competitor it’s British

competitor for my number 18. we’ve got

the Riga Saturn it’s come out this year

I believe

2023 20.

um it’s the Mark III Saturn using a dual

woolston deck um it looks lovely and the

the quality of the chassis is fabulous

so I think it’s going to be a very

interesting thing to sort of compare

this with with the Cyrus products

um you know all the usual

features that you would expect in a

modern in modern player

now I’m going to set the cat amongst the

pigeons so if you don’t mind that

expression

because we’ve seen some very very very

expensive machines

and I just want to put some balance in

here

and today I’m going to show you a

picture of a machine that you’re

probably not even considered I’ve never

seen one before but I ordered one today

just before coming into the studio to

make this video and it’s my number 19

it’s a Phillips

t-a-e-p-200 I thought it would be

interesting to compare where Philips are

today

compared to one of the first or the very

first Phillips model and I’ve got a very

early Philips machine coming to The

Listening Room in the next few days now

this Philips taep 200 is actually a DVD

player but it has analog out and it has

coax out

and I’m just wondering how good it can

sound it has a remote control and it

costs

49 euros

including delivery so it’s going to be

delivered tomorrow to my house

for 49 euros is it possible that this

machine could sound anywhere near the

modern machines

now I don’t want to upset anybody but I

just think it’s an interesting question

that deserves an answer because if

you’re a student and you’ve got no money

and you want to listen to great music

buying one of them ease machines you can

also play DVDs from your dad’s DVD

collection you can get you see these as

I say from the second hand shop or

whatever or borrow them from your dad

and you theoretically you might well be

able to hear something which for a

reasonably good or very good quality for

a very low price but we will see maybe

it’s a complete disaster

so my last one

um is a sunny Walkman Discman now this

is the thing that’s interesting

this is one of the latest models or the

later models I bought it secondhand on

eBay again for 25 Euros

and you think well why am I as a serious

hi-fi

freak even thinking about talking about

this well the reason is simple

the moment that Phillips thought of the

CD think of the pink culture the early

little demo they wanted something small

but they wanted something mobile

and they immediately started designing a

CD player that could withstand being

shaken

whilst playing

so all of the machines that we’ve seen

where they’re talking about

anti-vibration all of these things to

Make a Better Sound well this machine

and I’ve tried it it has a line out I

can play it and I can shake it like this

and it will keep playing

now I’m not going to talk about how it

sounds except for the say it wasn’t bad

until the next one because I want my

panel to listen and make a decision for

themselves but it just shows you that in

1984

one year after the first CD player came

out they launched their first one it

didn’t look quite like this but we got a

picture of it we’ll show it to you

and the idea was to make something as I

say that you could shake go off jogging

with

and play and the interesting thing is

because this one has a line out as well

okay it’s a it’s a small Jack you can

play it plug it into your Hi-Fi system

which would also be another solution for

students and people with not much room

so that’s my very very last one you

might think it’s a bit of a joke they

made the last Walkman or Discman in um

year 2000 but I hope you’ve enjoyed this

as I say it’s not a

a complete list by any sense and maybe

I’ve missed something which is so

obvious and please let me know in the

comments but I hope you enjoyed it and

I look forward to you joining me for

part two where we will start comparing

and answering that question can a 30

year old machine sound as good as the

best ones how would this for example

compare with a really good modern

machine

um and my listening panel what models

would they choose to take home with them

so until then

Enjoy your music

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