Technics MASH cd players....

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a lesson.... Sometimes frivolous off the cuff impulse buys pay off. The other day thrift shopping i pickup a a Technics SL PG-300 single cd player simply because it caught my eye and it was only $5.(Also found a Sanyo TT)

Last night my Sony CDP C-505 gave up the fight and started skipping uncontrollably its been kinda buggy the last few weeks. So I put my new find in its place. Nice little player. Good detailed sound has lots of useful features like peak scan and tape length which to me is useful.

Does anyone use or like these? I know the Multi sound noise shaping is kind of a gimmick but these seem like decent players. I have another one of these too a Mash 5 disc changer in storage at my sons. I might put it back into rotation if I can find a remote for both.
 
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Technics MASH cd players are very good, from what i remember they sound good and are very good at reading the worst of scratched discs...

I passed on a nice single cd Technics player a while back at my local "value Village" and i am a bit sorry i did......
 
I have on in the shop and it gets used everyday....and after 15 years of being around grease, chemicals, hot, cold, and the occasional dirty cd......it's still kicking and making music!!!:yes:
 
I'm running one in the system right now. Technics Sl-PD888. Has been there since around 96/97 and hasn't caused one bit of trouble. Rarely ever skips either. As for the sound, well, i like it better than our first CDP, an 80's era Magnavox. But those are the only two CD players i've ever had, so experience is limited.
 
A friend got the Technics sl ps700 at $40...from ebay. It has lots of features for recording to tape, and the sound is awesome.
 
I have a MASH SL-PG300 in the garage. It has a bunch of buttons on it that I never use. It is covered in dust and the occasional lawn clipping. Missing the remote. Works like a champ.

I cannot tell you if it sounds good since I'm running a grainy vintage Kenwood KR 4070 (w/ a burned out stereo light) and Minimus 7 speakers with it with the bass knob turned up one notch and the treble knob down a tad.

Am I a snob?

Ken
 
MASH was Technics' name for the 1-bit DACs they and many other companies used with their CD players, when such convertors became widely available in the early 90s.

1-bit converters, which use an operating principle similar to the DSD format sacds use, require a lot of sophisticated "noise shaping" (an actual technical term) of the signal they generate to get them to sound good. But the trade off is they are much cheaper than the alternative, which was multibit converters, which use an individual resistor for each bit of the 16bit sample word....resistors which had to have extremely accurate resistance values so they had to be physically trimmed using a laser, a pricey operation!
 
I took a pic of my $5 treasure. My changer was doing double duty as a turntable base so I had to put a board on top. Nice how they put all the individual controls on the front of these instead of needing a remote for everything.
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I have several of the Technics CD players. Only one was bought new, and after 30 years I have no complaints. You sure can't buy that today for a C-note.
 
I bought my SL-PG300 new in 92. Still maintenance free after almost 30 years.
They also made a cheaper model with no remote or direct access. The
rest was identical. These are not even ES models !
 
Hello everyone, I have had 2 Technics slpg 300 cd players for about 10 years, which I bought used, they are from 1991, and they work perfectly, only one of them I changed the transport strap. They probably won't have the best sound But in terms of durability I don't think there are any others like it, greetings!
 
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I bought my Technics SL-PG100 MASH CD player over 30 years ago and it still works as good as it did the day I bought it.
Same with the Technics receiver I bought with it. It is my office system and runs almost every day.
 
mwpgtx said:
Hello everyone, I have had 2 Technics slpg 300 cd players for about 10 years, which I bought used, they are from 1991, and they work perfectly, only one of them I changed the transport strap. They probably won't have the best sound But in terms of durability I don't think there are any others like it, greetings!
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Greetings and welcome to AK!!
 
jsisk said:
I bought my Technics SL-PG100 MASH CD player over 30 years ago and it still works as good as it did the day I bought it.
Same with the Technics receiver I bought with it. It is my office system and runs almost every day.
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I have one of those too. Not only does it sound really nice, especially compared to my Sony, but it will play pretty much any CD I put in it. The Sony, Integra and Yamaha players I have skip on a few discs whereas the Technics just runs through the scratches.

It's kind of like the 4x4 of CD players. It goes through everything!
 
H2oman7.62mm said:
I like mine, and it sounds great with the optical cable feeding a Schiit DAC.

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This is the one I had. I got rid of it in a move. Of course, my daughter, who I got into vinyl, got herself into CD's. I wish I had it to give it to her because it was really nice. I have a hard time re-buying things I've let go, but this might be an exception if I can find it cheaper than what I bought it for back in the late 80's/90's.
 
drjohnnyfeva said:
This is the one I had. I got rid of it in a move. Of course, my daughter, who I got into vinyl, got herself into CD's. I wish I had it to give it to her because it was really nice. I have a hard time re-buying things I've let go, but this might be an exception if I can find it cheaper than what I bought it for back in the late 80's/90's.
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Most of the Technics MASH CD players and changers I see for sale are really inexpensive. It's almost like people haven't realized how great they were/are.

I have picked up a few recently just to have as spares since they were so inexpensive. The real surprise was how good they sound and work compared to my "better" units.
 
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