That's nice looking machine.[/QUOTE] I bought it in 1987 and still have it. It still plays, but doesn't like some CDs these days and struggles to 'find' them. Beautifully made machine, though.
Yes, it's very similar, isn't it. I've never seen that one before. This is my most recent CD/SACD player. Bought it in February.
Whoopsie. I actually posted the wrong picture. They all look so similar. THIS is my new player. The 1520AE.
Not sure if it was posted in this thread but I posted this in another thread- The first commercial compact disc was produced on 17 August 1982. » Here's a cool little tidbit about a local radio station here in NJ- By 1980, WDHA had evolved into an album-oriented rock format similar to WNEW-FMat the time. In 1984, WDHA was the world's first radio station to play the then-newcompact disc. By the late 1980s, more heavy metal bands were heard while the station still kept a balance between classic rock and new rock. At this time, WDHA had become a popular station in northern New Jersey. WDHA-FM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia » I believe the first cd they played was Billy Joel.
That is Jan Timmer between the two ABBA guys. He was head of PolyGram at that time, and would later become the CEO of Philips.
My old Sony CDP-302, picture taken in 2012 for another thread - the last time I had it out to see if it operated. It did. Like so many other Sony players, it is the drawer operation that has malfunctioned here. When you hit eject, the drawer comes out slightly and snaps back shut before a disc can be put in or taken out. You have to grab the tray and forcibly pull it out to get a disc in there. But when it operates, it has the fastest seek-time of any CD player I've ever used. Push the 5 button on the remote and in microseconds, track 5 is playing. The CD pictured is the first one I ever bought, Carpenters SINGLES 1969-1973. Harry
Happy 34th Birthday to the Compact Disc!! Back in 1982, on this date, ABBA's "The Visitors" became the first commercial CD pressed at the West German Polydor CD pressing plant. Personally, I celebrate the October 1, 1982 date as the CD's true birthday when Japan CBS/Sony unleashed the format upon the public.
What's that crazy, thick black ring around the bottom outside edge of the "Digital Disc" he's holding?
The mirror band. I'm guessing it's Abba's The Visitors or some such disc. Maybe a classical CD. Here's the view from the label side.
Though recorded before the CD age, I think it is generally accepted that Ry Cooder's Bop 'Til You Drop was the first major label album to be recorded entirely in digital (in 1979).
My first "DDD" CD was Jean-Michel Jarre's "Zoolook" in 1984 Apparently the 1985 "Brothers In Arms" was DAD" lol SPARS code - Wikipedia »
From another thread (and likely a wikipedia quote as well): Philips established the Polydor Pressing Operations plant in Langenhagen near Hannover, Germany, and quickly passed a series of milestones. The first test pressing was of a recording of Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), played by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by Herbert von Karajan, who had been enlisted as an ambassador for the format in 1979.[17] The first public demonstration was on the BBC television program Tomorrow's World in 1981, when The Bee Gees' album Living Eyes (1981) was played.[18] The first commercial compact disc was produced on 17 August 1982. It was a recording from 1979 of Claudio Arrau performing Chopin waltzes (Philips 400 025-2). Arrau was invited to the Langenhagen plant to press the start button. The first popular music CD produced at the new factory was The Visitors (1981) by ABBA.[19] The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, which reached the market alongside Sony's CDP-101 CD player on 1 October 1982 in Japan.[20]
Interesting looking at the Wiki list of Waiting for Cousteau; I have a French dreyfus En attendant Cousteau disc labelled ADD https://www.discogs.com/Jean-Michel-Jarre-En-Attendant-Cousteau/release/23117 Whereas the Europe dreyfus / Polydor Waiting for Cousteau is labelled DDD https://www.discogs.com/Jean-Michel-Jarre-Waiting-For-Cousteau/release/130356 To be expected , no doubt a print error.
