Happy Birthday - Compact Disc Turns 25

[Blue Dude]

I didn't own a CD player until 1998, and it was a CD-ROM drive. What can I say? We moved all the time in those days and traveled very light.

My first CD purchase was a box set:

Beethoven's 9 symphonies, Leonard Bernstein conducting. That's what tipped me over. Cassettes just weren't cutting it anymore for that kind of material.

 

[The Dukester]

My first CD player (which I still have) was a Sony CDP-302. My first two CDs (can't remember which I bought first...I'm old and forgetfull) were B. Joel's "An Innocent Man" and V. Halen's 1984, which is one of the worst recordings I have. Lot's of analog hiss and just plain crappy recording. "An Innocent Man", by contrast sounds great.

Long live the CD. If we only had more good music and recording engineers

 

[hemiram]

Oh my God....

I bought stuff from Highland Appliance in Toledo back in the 80s. There.... and Sun TV in columbus

Reynolds Road, or Monroe St?

 

[hemiram]

I thought I bought my first CD player late in 83, but according to this link...it wasn't made until '84...LOL Maybe CD player sales are like car sales?

My first player was a Technices SL-P8.
http://www.thevintageknob.org/DAD/SLP8/SLP8.html
Shockingly, I even found a photo of one. (mine was black)

In fact, I was the first person I knew who owned one I still remember the horrid disc selection of the early years, and the average disc price was $16.99-18.99 in 1984 dollars!! I really don't remember what I paid for the player. Just guessing, it was about $400. That was a lot of coin for a HS kid to plunk down!!

My friend got one for xmas from his GF, who dumped him a month and a half later, and took it back. She kept the ring he gave her that was like $600. Her reason for dumping him, "You don't make enough money!"

Isn't love grand?

 

[Joe Schmoe]

I remember my first player. It was a little square sony cube thing. I hated the form factor but loved the player. I had at the time about 150 LP's and I sold them all but a select few within 2 months. I wish I could remember what my first CD was. It Might have been Spyra Gyra.

I remember my first CD player too. It was a Sony Discman. I sold all of my LPs and my turntable almost immediately, and have never looked back. I don't foresee a day when anything else will ever be my primary music source.

 

[Pheaton]

Hi,
My first CD player was an Onkyo DX-C310 in the mid 90's. I am still using it in the living room and have never had a problem with it. I actually started buying CD's before I got the player, so that when I did get a player I would have something to listen to.

Pheaton