FISHER AD 800 - CD Player from 1983

[4gasem]

I have 11,000 songs in my iPhone 4... Now THAT'S convenience! lol

[Allanlegacy43]

It took awhile for CD's to catch on, it wasn't until about 1992/93 that I gave up my cassettes. I didn't like the sound of a CD at first, It seemed bland and artifical where as a cassette seemed alive and bold, just my opinion, what do you think?

[McLarenMercedes]

@Allanlegacy43

The reason was a lot of the early transfers to CD's were done in a rush. Way too often they sounded worse than vinyls. Since more and more people (especially the youth) abandoned the vinyls and loved the convenience of the CD, so transfers were sloppy with a few exceptions.

It wasn't until the "remasters" appeared CD's really came into their stride in my opinion.

I never owned a LP player, but have been thinking of purchasing one, since I like high-end analogue brilliance.

[Allanlegacy43]

@McLarenMercedes Eye see, thanks.

[analogdigital1]

It is a rebadged Sanyo DAD 8 Compact Disk player. I bought one new back around 1984 for $349. It played nice, but switching between programs took too long.

[CommodoreGreg]

@SuperGilberto1977 - a lot less than your mom is for bringing you into the world.

[eyeh8nbc]

Never seen a CD player automatically play the 'lead-in' part at the beginning (where it counts down 2 seconds prior to the start of the first track.) I've had a habit of pausing mine when starting a disc and scanning backwards to play this part- all discs have at least 2-3 seconds of silence, and some have hidden songs!

[Ryoga2K]

bad response time if you look at the Philips and Sony models from that time, but the way the door works is just lovely.

[KLX1410]

piece of shit comparing to my audiomeca

[corplhicks]

Radiohead. Nice.

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

Beautiful

[apache1234657]

its really loud

[JJ9715]

This cd player is as old as I am. Are cd players obsolete?

[scarabeus79]

If it is as old as you why don't you get a girlfriend and spend time with her rather than posting stupid comments?

[HLM190586]

@JJ9715

yup

[tekoheko]

VERY nice..

[StarionX]

I wish someone would make a DVD player that loads vertically. That would be cool.

[TheDustpile]

@StarionX No. It would mean getting fingerprints and blemishes on the disc. Vertical loading was much clumsier.

[StarionX]

@TheDustpile That still doesn't stop people from touching the CD on a standard drawer. I know people who do that and I cringe when I see that. Same with vinyl.

[CommodoreGreg]

How's the sound quality on this early model?

[SuperGilberto1977]

@CommodoreGreg what kind of a jackass question is this?

[gorton8andy]

@CommodoreGreg I had one it was Ok but a bit 'dry' and flat, also wasn't very good at tracking either

[geordieboydave]

it must have cost a lot at the time

[cdodkin]

I had one of these players in 1983 - it sucked!

Always getting errors starting CDs - eventually it just gave-up reading any CDs at all.

[pentaxsubversion]

wow thats an intresting cd player

[atarimon]

I so totally want one of these...epic retro stuff, but completely awesome...

[mingobikes]

Nice! I have the "big brother" Sanyo DAD-M15. And are lucky to have Micro Seiki CD-M1 to, both vertical loaders.

[dolot17000]

Skąd masz tyle sprzętu z tamtych czasów? Anglia?

[TomekToOn]

Też na "A" - Allegro :)

[djmhyde]

very cool CD player man, i like the CD "tray" hehe

[Silberbard]

I have bought the Sanyo DAD 8 in 1983 - and still have it.

[Horrorshow655321]

AWESOME!!!!

[younghifi]

Why do those digit displays flicker so much? Some kind of video defect?

Nice player anyhow ;) 12bit DAC on-board if I remember correctly?

[highart2003]

Persistence of vision, except for LCDs, everything is constantly flashing but your eyes don't notice.

[pauleyh]

thats a sweet ass cd yo

[Silverwolfstarz]

sweet cd player