Magnavox CD Player, FD 3030, made in Belgium circa 1984
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An early Philips-based player with dual 14-bit TDA1540D DAC's... probably not the equal of later 16-bit machines in that family, but they sound surprisingly good. I'd rather listen to that machine than some early 16-bit stuff (and did quite a bit as my original Tandberg 3015A was based on the same DAC design and very similar CDM pickup).
These machines like to be used regularly, the CDM-0 can get cranky about spinning up to speed if it sits unused a lot.
John
These machines like to be used regularly, the CDM-0 can get cranky about spinning up to speed if it sits unused a lot.
John
NAD80
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Check out this. http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threa...actly-is-a-first-generation-cd-player.365652/. Think the manuals are here at HiFiEngine.com. https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/philips/cd303.shtml. They look alike. Found this listing. http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/the_complete_d_a_dac_converter_list/ And of course Welcome to AK.
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Francis55
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I need someone who knows something about this machine (ha ha--thanks for the analysis, interesting). Yeah, initially it couldn't spin the CD, I almost gave up on it and was going to dispose of it, waited a bit longer, then it started working, apparently that's characteristic of this machine--read somewhere that this issue can be fixed, but fixing it can cause other damage if not done just so.