David Looser wrote:

"Arny Krueger" wrote

Ironically, I know of 2 CDP 101s that are both still fully operable, and
they both play CDRs quite nicely. I believe that they were on the market
several years when the Meridian 200 was new. Talk about CDRs not existing
when they were designed!

My Philips CD104, also dating from long before CD-Rs, plays them absolutely
fine (when it works at all that is!)

Since we're in digital history world, I'd like to say that I thought the
original CD players I heard STANK. Truncutation of reverb tails was the bete
noire for me.

Then a pro-colleague bought a Denon DCD-1700. - I ended up buying it off him at
what must be at today's prices easily $3000. I still have it. It was the
first CD player I'd ever heard that sounded like it was making MUSIC !

Plus it feels solid and just 'feels nice'.Machined aluminium and heavy build.
Damn, that's the stufff ! I dare say I'll get an external DAC for it one day
but the dual oversampled BBs don't do a bad job.

Graham