I just purchased a vintage CD player!

snow

christophermuto wrote: »

And one day I figured out that the stock number on each component included the lowest selling price poorly encrypted in the number... which made it easy to shop there and cut to the chase of the lowest possible price and not feel that you were overpaying.

That is pretty standard for businesses like pawn shops to include the price paid or pawn given in the inventory number so a sales clerk at a glance can haggle with a customer regarding price, for example lets say a pawn shop paid $20.00 for a amp the inventory number may read 56740020 the last two or 3 numbers after the double zero will be what they have into it so if the clerk has permission to sell for double or triple what they have into it he can sell it for $40.00 or $60.00 mininmum without having to look for a supervisor or manager.



REGARDS SNOW

nooshinjohn

I want one of these...

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oifvet0608

cnh wrote: »

CD players have been around since a bit before you were born. When they first appeared they were outrageously expensive..kind of like the first Blu-rays were. It took QUITE a while before they dropped below 250 dollars?

If I'm not mistaken Sony introduced the first player in 1982--the CDP-101? That would make the CD player 27 years of age this year....old enough to be 'vintage'...I think!

cnh

I stand corrected!!

Phil Dawson

I still use my Sony X7ESD CD player a lot. I bought it used but originally it was about $2000 or so. It is a great player and sounds almost as good as the Lexicon Rt-20 that is now in my main system and it was recently in production (now out) with a list price of $5000. Some of the older players can sound great. Some are built like tanks.
Phil

SRS-SDA Front
2 cs400i Center
SRS-SDA Rear
Shure 12in sub
B&K ref 10 pre-pro upgr to ref 50
Techniques 1200 TT
Mac MR71 Tuna
Lexicon rt-20 uni player
HK citation pre for TT
2 PSE Studio Mono Blocks
4 PSE Studio Stereo Amps
1 Mac 2100 Amp for sub

Danny Tse

The Technics is not here yet.

Hillbilly61

Phil Dawson wrote: »

I still use my Sony X7ESD CD player a lot. I bought it used but originally it was about $2000 or so. It is a great player and sounds almost as good as the Lexicon Rt-20 that is now in my main system and it was recently in production (now out) with a list price of $5000. Some of the older players can sound great. Some are built like tanks.

A lot of older stuff is like that. While R&D and tooling costs will initially jack up the price of new technology, price decreases will also be had by cheapening the design. Figuring out short cuts or using cheaper parts, etc.

After CD players first came out, I recall one of the early improvements in the initial design was the use of dual D/A converters. Then, I think, increased sampling rates came next. At some point after that, there was a push to make 'em more affordable by cheapening up the design and/or using more integrated components etc. High end stuff, as with most high end anything, generally avoided 'cheap' solutions but their prices remain elevated too.