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In Reply to: Phillips CD-80 - Worth Acquiring? posted by PureAudio on August 11, 2006 at 14:59:28:
...I had the 880, a variant, which one a "sound-off" against the flagship Denon and Sony's as the best sounding CD player of that era. However, the DAC's tended to become non-linear below -90 and that led to the infamous "disappearance" of ambience tails attributed to CD in that era. But with that caveat, it was an exceptionally nice-sounding unit. I eventually replaced it in my main system with a Marantz 63SE-DTI Pro-Proceed PDP, and continued to use it in my second system until it's servo finally gave up the ghost in 2004. A run of 15 years is not bad for a complicated piece of electro-mechanical gear.Be warned, however, replacement parts or entire transports are no longer available. So when it dies, it dies.
If you can get it for $100 bucks, it's worth it.
Harry
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