Great video! Brings back a lot of memories. I remember reading hifi magazines when I was a kid in '73 talking about how Phillips was working on a system of audio playback using a laser beam. It was said to have unbelievable specs, better than any other format and it sounded like science fiction. I read articles through the years where writers had been able to audition development systems and they were amazed at the completely quiet noise floor, dynamic range, and low distortion. The systems at that time took two full racks of discrete parts and it wasn't anywhere ready for consumers but I couldn't wait and I dreamed of the day it would be available and I could get one. Sony worked with Phillips to make custom ICs, etc and the CDP-101 was the first unit available, followed by a Phillips unit (which was a top loading unit if I remember correctly).I went straight to the hifi store and bought one of the first ones available. It cost almost $1000 and I had to get bank financing, conveniently available at the store, to buy it. CDs cost $20 each at the time and there were about 5 titles in total available, classical selections and a single rock/pop: Toto IV. I must have listened to that Toto disc a million times waiting for new titles. I loved that player more than any other single piece of audio gear I have ever had. Used it for many years, but when it developed a tendency to skip a little, I put it back in the original box along with the receipt and stuck it in the closed, and it's still there today.
Thanks for your well put together video that took me down memory lane. I can well remember the rumours, the hype and the anticipation of the new and exciting digital era, that swirled around the introduction of the CD in the early 1980's. Everyone was abuzz with ideas and concerns, both real and imagined, about what this all meant for the future of music, hifi equipment and the existing formats of records, cassettes and tapes. If everyone had a CD player would it mean turntables, cassette players and reel to reel machines would become obsolete, along with the recorded music it contained. Early on It was difficult to find out what music would be put onto CD, when it would be available to buy and how much it would cost, so we took careful note of every utterance by the main companies who controlled the production and release of recordings on CD and scoured the hifi and music mags for any useful information. We know the answer now, of course, but all through the 1980's there was a lot of uncertainty, concern and excitement about where digitized music and recorded music in general, was heading. It is interesting to consider now, that after all this time, we still have some of those same questions, concerns and feelings about where recorded music formats are going, as the popularity of CD's wain in favour of streaming services, while vinyl and even cassettes, apparently, have made a bit of a comeback.
Thanks for your reminiscences. I don't actually remember the release of the CD player. I was a young child. The first ever CD player I owned would have been a CD-ROM in a computer - probably not until well into the 90s. I remember wandering around the record stores in the early 90s and looking at all these CDs that I couldn't afford and didn't have anything to play them anyway. I bought second hand LPs instead. Good point about music catalogs and magazines - how easy it is to forget life without the internet, where you couldn't just look things up.
Yo asistí a la presentación en España de CDP101 en la Feria de Sonimag en Barcelona, la casa Sony nos Obsequio Con un CD de cartulina con las especificaciones del formato, la demostración se hizo con una composición clásica 1812 de Chaikosky los cañonazos se escucharon como nunca lo había oído antes, entonces entendí que el vino había muerto, ciertamente para garantizar Sony y Philips la venta de estos reproductores se hicieron con las 2 productoras más potentes de la Época, con esto se alentó a la compra de reproductores que crecieron en picado como las de los giradiscos caían también en picado. No me lo pensé mucho y compré un CDP101 que sigue dándome muchísimas horas de placer melómano espero que me dure otros 40 años más. Un saludo desde Valencia (España).
Nice video. I just picked up a CDP-70. A couple of years later (1985). Seems to have same DAC as the 101. Different footprint. Same function and buttons. It skips but am hoping to fix that by cleaning the rails. Sound otherwise is very nice.
I actually didnt Knew that CDs existed in 1980s. I thought they were Invented in the mid 90s. I actually Bought A sony 3cd Changer/dual deck Cassette Hifi System(MHC-GR8000) in 1997 And i was blown by The quality of CD. I still remember what song it was ; it was MJ's "The way You Make me Feel". Btw, Can This One play Burnt Discs? I mean CDs burnt in CDA format
Thanks for the memory. I haven't tried a burnt disc in it, however this unit needs some work to get it playing properly before I can do too much with it.
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Great video! Brings back a lot of memories. I remember reading hifi magazines when I was a kid in '73 talking about how Phillips was working on a system of audio playback using a laser beam. It was said to have unbelievable specs, better than any other format and it sounded like science fiction. I read articles through the years where writers had been able to audition development systems and they were amazed at the completely quiet noise floor, dynamic range, and low distortion. The systems at that time took two full racks of discrete parts and it wasn't anywhere ready for consumers but I couldn't wait and I dreamed of the day it would be available and I could get one. Sony worked with Phillips to make custom ICs, etc and the CDP-101 was the first unit available, followed by a Phillips unit (which was a top loading unit if I remember correctly).I went straight to the hifi store and bought one of the first ones available. It cost almost $1000 and I had to get bank financing, conveniently available at the store, to buy it. CDs cost $20 each at the time and there were about 5 titles in total available, classical selections and a single rock/pop: Toto IV. I must have listened to that Toto disc a million times waiting for new titles. I loved that player more than any other single piece of audio gear I have ever had. Used it for many years, but when it developed a tendency to skip a little, I put it back in the original box along with the receipt and stuck it in the closed, and it's still there today.
Time to dig it out! Hopefully the fix is simple. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for your well put together video that took me down memory lane. I can well remember the rumours, the hype and the anticipation of the new and exciting digital era, that swirled around the introduction of the CD in the early 1980's. Everyone was abuzz with ideas and concerns, both real and imagined, about what this all meant for the future of music, hifi equipment and the existing formats of records, cassettes and tapes. If everyone had a CD player would it mean turntables, cassette players and reel to reel machines would become obsolete, along with the recorded music it contained. Early on It was difficult to find out what music would be put onto CD, when it would be available to buy and how much it would cost, so we took careful note of every utterance by the main companies who controlled the production and release of recordings on CD and scoured the hifi and music mags for any useful information. We know the answer now, of course, but all through the 1980's there was a lot of uncertainty, concern and excitement about where digitized music and recorded music in general, was heading. It is interesting to consider now, that after all this time, we still have some of those same questions, concerns and feelings about where recorded music formats are going, as the popularity of CD's wain in favour of streaming services, while vinyl and even cassettes, apparently, have made a bit of a comeback.
Thanks for your reminiscences. I don't actually remember the release of the CD player. I was a young child. The first ever CD player I owned would have been a CD-ROM in a computer - probably not until well into the 90s. I remember wandering around the record stores in the early 90s and looking at all these CDs that I couldn't afford and didn't have anything to play them anyway. I bought second hand LPs instead. Good point about music catalogs and magazines - how easy it is to forget life without the internet, where you couldn't just look things up.
Yo asistí a la presentación en España de CDP101 en la Feria de Sonimag en Barcelona, la casa Sony nos Obsequio Con un CD de cartulina con las especificaciones del formato, la demostración se hizo con una composición clásica 1812 de Chaikosky los cañonazos se escucharon como nunca lo había oído antes, entonces entendí que el vino había muerto, ciertamente para garantizar Sony y Philips la venta de estos reproductores se hicieron con las 2 productoras más potentes de la Época, con esto se alentó a la compra de reproductores que crecieron en picado como las de los giradiscos caían también en picado.
No me lo pensé mucho y compré un CDP101 que sigue dándome muchísimas horas de placer melómano espero que me dure otros 40 años más.
Un saludo desde Valencia (España).
Nice video. I just picked up a CDP-70. A couple of years later (1985). Seems to have same DAC as the 101. Different footprint. Same function and buttons. It skips but am hoping to fix that by cleaning the rails. Sound otherwise is very nice.
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I actually didnt Knew that CDs existed in 1980s. I thought they were Invented in the mid 90s. I actually Bought A sony 3cd Changer/dual deck Cassette Hifi System(MHC-GR8000) in 1997 And i was blown by The quality of CD. I still remember what song it was ; it was MJ's "The way You Make me Feel". Btw, Can This One play Burnt Discs? I mean CDs burnt in CDA format
Thanks for the memory. I haven't tried a burnt disc in it, however this unit needs some work to get it playing properly before I can do too much with it.
Hey what it's real price for now?
it was amazing and unconceivable indeed!!
Nice video.
ps.
Man on the moon... on hollywood studios. ;)
Your friend should of given it a wipe down
Ha Ha - sadly it won't come off as the plastic finish is damaged. I think my friend left his beer sitting on it.
The digital sound on the cd cannot reach the frequencies that the tape can on the analog tape. 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.
You watch too much audiophool snake oil, mate.