domfjbrown
live & breathe psy-trance
I remember when CD first came out - I was with my dad one day in 1984 and we ended up in Laskeys - I got to hear a black frontloader - probably the Sony CDP101) while dad was mooching around (maybe he was weighing up BUYING a TV instead of renting ad infinitum
) and I thought it sounded great. Mind you, I didn't have access to a decent turntable and we didn't own one stereo item in our house until 1986! When my dad told me how much the machine cost I just said something like "that's my pocket money for the next 10 years!!!!" 
I had a Trophy (think Matsui-then!) mono radio-cassette in 1985, but I do have 2 1985 vintage CD players - a Technics SLP2 (twin 16bit DACs, 8x oversampling (I think)) and a Marantz CD54 (14bit 4x oversampling, based on the Philips CD104 but with decent HDAM output stages). Both sound reasonable but then the Marantz has the top end rolled right off, and the Technics sounds phasey. Both sound like they're producing modulation noise on paino and female vocals - whether that's age or the digital electronics, I don't know.
Neither produce anywhere near as good a music as even my NAD 533 turntable; certainly on something like Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, her Bosendorfer (?) sounds like a Bontempi organ!!! Well - ok, not that bad, but DEFINITELY synthesized - like an early PCM digital piano...
ALL LP12s sound broken by default - BECAUSE they're LP12s. :duck:


Originally posted by Goomer
I have been happily living with both formats since 1985 too, and have never really understood this one versus the other argument.
I had a Trophy (think Matsui-then!) mono radio-cassette in 1985, but I do have 2 1985 vintage CD players - a Technics SLP2 (twin 16bit DACs, 8x oversampling (I think)) and a Marantz CD54 (14bit 4x oversampling, based on the Philips CD104 but with decent HDAM output stages). Both sound reasonable but then the Marantz has the top end rolled right off, and the Technics sounds phasey. Both sound like they're producing modulation noise on paino and female vocals - whether that's age or the digital electronics, I don't know.
Neither produce anywhere near as good a music as even my NAD 533 turntable; certainly on something like Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos, her Bosendorfer (?) sounds like a Bontempi organ!!! Well - ok, not that bad, but DEFINITELY synthesized - like an early PCM digital piano...
ALL LP12s sound broken by default - BECAUSE they're LP12s. :duck:
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