On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 16:44:01 -0400, "Arny Krueger"
wrote:

"Max Holubitsky" wrote in message


Typical of a system that has been balanced to favor LPs.

Arny - honestly, I think it's the CD player itself. Until recently I
had all my discs in a Pioneer 101 disc changer - when I had that
thing, the balance was more like 80% LP and 10% CD - the damn thing
was very inconvenient to use - a total impulse purchace.

The incovenience may have affected your perceptions of its sound quality.

I connected my OLD Philips CDP-101 (I think is the model #), which is
so old that it indicates the current track with a row of LEDs,
instead of a digital display, and it's actually made in Holland. This
is among the very first CD players offered to consumers. I connected
it about a month and a half ago, and since I connected it, I've been
listening to and buying more, and more CD's, and less and less LPs. A
more modern CD player would probably help the sound, but having just
got a new computer, and new tires for the car, I think it will have
to wait.

The CDP 101 was a Sony player, so that's not it. As I recall (after using it
for about 8 years, but scrapped it in 1991 or so because it quit tracking)
the track counter was a numeric electroluminescent display.

This sounds more like its Phillips counterpart the CD 100. You can find pix
of both at this URL:

http://www.hupse.nl/radio/frameset.h...m&ContentFrame

There *is* a model from Philips with the number 101 (it's a CD, *not*
a CDP though):

http://www.joeres.de/cd101.htm

Presumably, this is the same player as the CD 100, which was probably
the US model number.