"Anton Gÿsen" wrote in message

Arny Krueger wrote:
"Anton Gÿsen" wrote in message

Brian Gaff wrote:
You know I reached under my bed and found my old
Phillips CD100 the other day. It still works!
A bit touchy to seizmic events, slow to find tracks,
band a bit on the bright side of comfortable, but it
does still play CDs.

If you've got a Sony CDP-101 in your attic as well then
I'll be impressed. Always wanted to hear one of those.

I have one that still works very well. Even plays CD-Rs
well.

What does it sound like and how does it compare to modern
CD players?

It sounds good enough all by itself. In a close ABX test with certain
program material and speakers you can hear its two most potentially audible
failings:

(1) It uses analog filters whose response gets a little weird and
rolled-off above about 15 KHz.

(2) It has only one DAC that is time shared between the two output channels.
So, particularly if you have a center channel speaker driven by the two
channels summed, there is an additional roll-off above about 12 KHz that is
more audible.

For casual listening with most speakers and music, its fine.

BTW you should know that a very high proportion of all CDP101s contained
chips that slowly failed and made them mistrack just a little, and then
later mistrack a lot. In the early stages of failure, the tracking problems
are subtle and can sound like all sorts of weird things for different discs
and different people.