Nice CD player, but it's far from it's full potential unless you apply a few cheap mods, which will take this player to the upper class.
I have a Tesla MC902 (a rebadged Philips CD460 with CDM2/29), in which I changed the DAC to a single crown 1541A S1, made it non-oversampling and replaced the entire analogue out section with a custom schematic with one JFET per channel as the only active component in the signal path. To my ears, it sounds much better than any stock Philips unit I ever heard.
I bought one of these babies and had it modded by Soloist Audio for another $1000
and now its broken thanks for FED EX and Atlas Audio....I sent it in for repair and they did a shitty wrap job after the second time I sent back to them after the first repair only lasted 2 week ends.
Everyone, be careful of Atlas Audio.....love the player "if" they ever send it back to me.
@AttilaSVK I have a stock marantz cd-65 mark 2,
is there anything i can do to it (mods etc)?
tin701 11 months ago
I like the my modded Philips CD-80 a little better then the 880.. Just suits my taste better.
Forget about the N.A.D. stuff, not even close..
falcon377 1 year ago
I like it.
Aliendear 1 year ago
Nice CD player, but it's far from it's full potential unless you apply a few cheap mods, which will take this player to the upper class.
I have a Tesla MC902 (a rebadged Philips CD460 with CDM2/29), in which I changed the DAC to a single crown 1541A S1, made it non-oversampling and replaced the entire analogue out section with a custom schematic with one JFET per channel as the only active component in the signal path. To my ears, it sounds much better than any stock Philips unit I ever heard.
AttilaSVK 1 year ago 2
whats the song ?
AticEnigma25 1 year ago
I bought one of these babies and had it modded by Soloist Audio for another $1000
and now its broken thanks for FED EX and Atlas Audio....I sent it in for repair and they did a shitty wrap job after the second time I sent back to them after the first repair only lasted 2 week ends.
Everyone, be careful of Atlas Audio.....love the player "if" they ever send it back to me.
ronnmaui 1 year ago
most of my cd players are philips dac chip based. the mechanism is strong & pack with goodies. this cd 880 is definitely a keeper..
xri7437 1 year ago
What is really impressive to me about this video, is the sound quality of your camera! It picks up nicely on the audio
5irR4p70r 1 year ago
@23chilled Well that's Philips for you.
classpc 1 year ago
give me a CD960 any day! CDM1 mech and a TDA1541!
trunky1812 1 year ago