DENON DCD-1500 CD Player (1985/1987)
Tasuke
Posts: 10
Brought an Old Friend back... DENON DCD-1500, 1985/1987. My First Serious CD Player, found at a SALVATION ARMY in 2006.
My Grandma (R.I.P.) used her Senior Discount to get it for me for around $12.00 IIRC.
i wiped my Original copy out long ago; getting all cocky and over-adventurous in the Vintage CD Player Modding that i was fancying myself as something of a gifted amateur at back then.
Right at the tail-end of 2024 i came across the perfect excuse to finally get it back; a little-used single-owner nearly-minty example, - complete with Manual and Remote - And You'd Better Believe That I Bit~
Man oh MAN; Clearly the System i had twenty years ago just didn't even come close to what i have today,
because BOY does it ever display just how SMOOTH and WARM and Utterly Listenable this CDP actually is.
i thought i was Happy to get this thing back before... but now, i am Ecstatic. it is SUPREMELY LISTENABLE~
My Grandma (R.I.P.) used her Senior Discount to get it for me for around $12.00 IIRC.
i wiped my Original copy out long ago; getting all cocky and over-adventurous in the Vintage CD Player Modding that i was fancying myself as something of a gifted amateur at back then.
Right at the tail-end of 2024 i came across the perfect excuse to finally get it back; a little-used single-owner nearly-minty example, - complete with Manual and Remote - And You'd Better Believe That I Bit~
Man oh MAN; Clearly the System i had twenty years ago just didn't even come close to what i have today,
because BOY does it ever display just how SMOOTH and WARM and Utterly Listenable this CDP actually is.
i thought i was Happy to get this thing back before... but now, i am Ecstatic. it is SUPREMELY LISTENABLE~
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I've owned many of the older Denon disk spinners. That one is easy on the eyes for sure. Glad you are enjoying it!
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Well known classic good sounding player!
Just out of curiosity how does it sound compared to the Legato Link D/A Converter in the Pioneer I see in that pic? -
Yep, fits into this list that wsjoe on eBay told me to look for a few years ago. He has parts and works on the old Denons
DCD-1520 and DCD-1560 around $200
DCD-2560 around $250-300
DCD-3520 around 300-350
DCD-3560 around 450-600"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"Anger is just anger. It isn’t good. It isn’t bad. It just is. What you do with it is what matters.
You can use it to build or to destroy. You just have to make the choice. Jim Butcher
Harry / Marietta GA -
Rare to see any early Denons with the wood side panels. Especially almost 40 years later!
