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Vintage CD Players and their old outdated DACs

Telecolor 3007 said:
What do you think about TDA 1540, 1541, 1543? :)
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I own a couple cd players with the 1541. The praise is deserved. Find this chip in the first gen Playstation. SCHP-1001, I THINK.

EDIT - See two posts below. I am wrong. I still find those 1st gen Playstations sound astounding.
 
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I had an old Realistic cartridge disc changer. It was made by Phillips.
Man it sounded good. I was very sad when it finely died.
 
E-Stat said:
Sorry, you're mistaken. The Redbook standard from 1980 was designed around the 640 MB CD media of that day.

24 bit audio was commercially introduced twenty years later with the DVD-A standard using the new 4.4 GB media.
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But true 24 bit audio is NOT on CD. And DVD-A High Res is not universal, and the most annoying user interface for 2 channel audiophiles. Only selected players equipped to play it could. Only 16 bit/44.1 Khz audio for CD. SACD hybrids were the superior high res disc format for everyman.

Also remember Philips and Sony had to work around the limitations of digital technology (and data for premastered digital audio was not stored on computer workstations, it was on Sony PCM-1600, PCM-1610, and PCM-1630 processors, which used U-Matic video cassettes or Beta cassettes to store the digital audio data). That technology then was the Lingua Franca of CD pre-mastering for glass masters to be prepared for CD replication. This is early 1980's technology being discussed.
 
KentTeffeteller said:
But true 24 bit audio is NOT on CD. And DVD-A High Res is not universal, and the most annoying user interface for 2 channel audiophiles. Only selected players equipped to play it could. Only 16 bit/44.1 Khz audio for CD. SACD hybrids were the superior high res disc format for everyman.

Also remember Philips and Sony had to work around the limitations of digital technology (and data for premastered digital audio was not stored on computer workstations, it was on Sony PCM-1600, PCM-1610, and PCM-1630 processors, which used U-Matic video cassettes or Beta cassettes to store the digital audio data). That technology then was the Lingua Franca of CD pre-mastering for glass masters to be prepared for CD replication. This is early 1980's technology being discussed.
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I believe JVC's XRCD format is 24bit ;)
 
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