Phase Linear 9500: Very early CD player.
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- I discuss a very early example of the state of the consumer CD player art from the beginning of the compact disc era. The machine in this video was made in 1983. This was made for Phase Linear by Kyocera and is actually a Kyocera DA-01 internally.
I love the way that player mimics a cassette deck, very interesting!
This unit is INCREDIBLE! It loads CD's like a cassette deck and operates like an advanced linear tracking turntable.
This early CD player was probably very expensive when purchased in '82. But what a great looking thing, and that eject mechanism sound; so nice.
Indeed, it was one of those things of emerging technology, and the abhorrent price tags to go with, haha. I may be off in the video regarding date, I think the 9500 was released in 83, but I know 82 was sort of the "beginning" for Red Book CD to really start coming out in general.
It was actually first manufactured by Kyocera in Japan and sold as Phase Linear in the US a year later. (1983)
Wow how modern, fresh and up to date this player looks 😯
All digital too. It's the future!
i absolutely loved this demo
You can see the when the ICs were made, the big one at 0:31 has 8335 printed on it. That means it was made in 1983 week number 35.
I bought a Technics SL-P7 on sale. It was on sale because nobody really knew what it was or wanted a CD player. It was in the HiFi shop for 8 months and I grabbed it for $300. My first CD I bough that day was Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads. It was a wonderful boat anchor over 10 pounds in weight and it played for many years without fault. I wish I never gave it away...
I had the opportunity to work with Bob Carver in 1982 while at HP in Lake Stevens, WA. Bob's team in Lynnwood used some of our test equipment to tweak and verify the performance of their new CD Player. If I recall correctly the original design actually came from Kyocera.
Indeed, it's a Kyocera DA-01 dressed up to look like Phase Linear. I can't recall if there were any electronic or other internal changes from the stock DA-01, I'd have to look it up.
I got my first CD player in 1987. A generic Sharp model but it worked. Really cool to see the fancier ones from that era! 👍
As did I - same year, same brand. Mine was from Dixons.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Mine came from Best Products.
That is such a cool mechanism
Very cool! Always amazing to see the engineering in some of these 80's and 90's electronics. Just madness going on in there!
Just amazing how nearly all electronics have been micro miniaturized over the decades. All the discreet circuitry in that and now 2 or 3 chips to do the same thing! I got my Sony CDP-101 in 1984. Listed for $950.00 I got for around $500.00. Seems like every 6 months prices were dropping fast.
That's actually not that bad for 1984.
That’s a very interesting piece of history. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Lettore CD fantastico,lo apprezzo molto!
Nice. I've been looking and hoping to buy one of these for 10+ years.
That's a very nice piece of gear, looks amazing and sounds pretty good too.
Very nice! I especially love the music in this video. In fact, I pride myself on being a big Bach fan.😊😊😊🎹🎹🎵🎶
Nice looking piece of kit! I still run a 1984 Marantz CD-54 - the early CD players were completely over engineered, which I like immensely!
Alex would've LOVED this. A little break from the ol' Ultra Violence.
😂😂😂 Have to see that clockwork again
Great player, and it looks like new! 👍
It’s pretty fast compared to latest machines. The playing and skipping of tracks is so instant.
Very cool :)
Love That nice mechanical head location led thingy
This is much nicer and rarer than a cd-100.
It's the exact same machine as the Kyocera DA-01. I believe Kyocera made it, but I'm not 100% sure of that. It was slow to load the TOC and its tracking ability was marginal by modern standards.
It is indeed the Kyocera DA-01
Fantastic cd player
I've a revox from the same era, same 14-bit chipset, & the drawer load that shoves the entire mech out into your face. sounds terrific, but won't go past 63', strict early red-book.
anyone know if there was a mod to make it handle longer discs better, or CDr?
Interesting machine ❤
Wildly cool.
It looks surprisingly modern compared to the contemporary Philips models.
It was made to match the design language of Phase Linear at the time (which is Bob Carver's work as I recall). I like both for different reasons, though as far as overall construction quality the Philips are a massive cut above.
@@w1ngsfly The styling is pretty great either way. Philips sometimes tends to overbuild things a little bit. I'm sure they both sound about the same though.
@@w1ngsfly Carver who made massive power amps?
@@mikafoxx2717 This CD players DAC is TDA1540, the same Philips used for their CD players (14 bit, 4x Oversampling). So, yes, these propably sound the same.
@@mateuszorlinski7334 depends also on the analog electronics, board layout, etc.
I remember them & was about $1400 for a player at that time & very few CD's were out then. I wonder if that player would play a CD-R being that old?
Nice. The first CD player that I encountered was one made by (or for) DUAL in 1983. By the way, what disc is that? I’m a Bach fan.
wow! thanks that shared to us
I had a DA-01 which I bought new from the Audiophool store I worked at dealer cost. I used it until the laser became so weak, that it skipped so much it was no longer usable. To bad these had a cable for the transport and not a screw drive.
Cool machine...🍺👍🔊🔈... !
Exposure seems to be spelled incorrectly on that warning label unless someone tells me otherwise.
Nice random access time and construction, probably a Toshiba OPH laser :)
Wow ! That’s a good one
Interesting it uses a cord to move the sled, rather like the dial-drive cord on a radio. Never seen that on a CD player before. Usually it's a worm drive or a toothed belt.
It may have been made by either Pioneer or Kyocera. I think that's who was mainly owned, or worked with Phase Linear at the time.
Indeed, and I was in error saying "leadscrew" in the video, there are similar machines with leadscrews, but this does indeed use the cord.
Very rare CD player.. 👍👍👍
worth it just for the novel load/eject 🤣
Excuse my memory but what year did microprocessor’s come out ?
Switched on Bach
Awesome device. One of the devices the press wrote about, to have a really harsh sound, caused by the missing mathematical processing later devices (86+ ?) have. Do you have the same feelings? I never had the chance the get my ears on such an old device with some decent headphones despite the time needed to compare it with another device.
I think, this harsh sound is overrated and just a medial scandal from the press, as we see it until today with many topics 🙂
The look and is amazing, especially the slot, where the media goes in. But the head location indicator has its own charm, too.
I have both Sony D-5 and Pioneer PD-C7 (which is actually a rebadged Sony D-5), which were the very first portable CD players released in 1984. Both sound similar to any other CD players, if not better. Amazingly, these CD players can play CD-R discs which was not even designed then and released in 1989.
I wonder how much they were new. I could only find a price of about $1000, which is about $3000 today.
I see they have spelt "Exposure" wrong on the warning label 😆
I love music playing from the cd. What is this album?
Switched On Bach, by Wendy Carlos. Quite hard to find compared to most stuff, as she doesn’t put any of her stuff on streaming services, and it’s not often on sale anywhere.
Very early CD player
Can't beat a bit of the old inny outty.
The true unobtainable and unreachable device for most people today. If you can find one, it will cost like a car.
Phase Linear 9500 CD Player in very good to near excellent cosmetic condition but will not play cd’s. What can I do to fix it ? Thanks
Good morning, I have one but it does not read the CD. What are some suggestions you might give to try and repair it ? Thanks
I really miss those days. You could work on things and replace the parts.
Nice. Is that just a repurposed cassette eject mechanism/door with an appropriate bezel stuck to the front?
It's a completely novel design that goes with the transport.
This design is based on an early Sony prototype. Eventualy they opted for a drawer-loading mechanism (for the CDP-101), while Philips made the CD100, a top-loader like their Pinkeltje prototype.
Philips also made the CD300, a drawer-loading player which ejected the whole mechanism. They've made a few players like that.
Sledge? I thought it was called a sled :D
lol, i thought it was a S-OB CD when i saw the disc...
Now do the Magnavox one.
Great rundown, subscribed but please silence the iPhone or whatever it is when recording.
Sometimes there are sounds in my videos, that's just how it is.
Is this a Hitachi da1000 Clone?
Despite the obvious external similarities, they're completely different machines. Hitachi made their own optical block for the DA-1000, along with the rest of the machine as far as I recall, all in house. The Kyocera DA-01 and its derivatives use Toshiba optical blocks, and are otherwise mechanically and electronically quite different as well.
The trouble that I see is that you have to put your finger’s on the playing surface.
The top loading cassette style loading can't be good for keeping the CD's clean. Bet the person who owned this ruined their CD's with sticky fingerprints or ended up wearing cotton gloves to stop them skipping.💿🔍👀
Does it play CDR?
All CD players should play CD-R discs
@@mateuszorlinski7334 Not all of them do, especially older ones.
The music you play, ehh,, sounds like it was done on a 8bit computer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-On_Bach
Have you ever heard anything made on a 8-bit Computer?
@@mateuszorlinski7334 sure have - why do you ask?
@@mateuszorlinski7334 yes i grew up with 8 bit computers.
How old are you?
It sounds so bad when you insert the disc, I feel that It scratchs the discs
CDDeck
Kyocera
Just like a toaster.
Slot Loaders are evil👹.
What was the design of the cd tray based on to me a tape deck? That's how tacky it looks