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Scored DCD-1500 (europe.pub)
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Scored a Denon DCD-1500 straight out of 1986. From what I could find these originally sold for about $700 in '86 money. Sounds warm, fantastic. Now to go dig the rest of my CD's out of the basement.

Picture of a Denon DCD-1500 CD Player
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[–] 6 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Oo v nice, digital output? You could use a much better DAC now and get far better sound than an 80s DAC.

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  • [–] 3 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

    No need to have this for most setups unless you are an enthusiast. Any A-brand CD player built after ~1985 has oversampling and 16-bit DACs. Sure modern DACs are better, but the audible difference is rather insignificant until used in a setup with high end speakers or headphones.

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    The JVC I just got has a 1 bit dac apparebtly. I can't really tell it apart from my Sony

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  • [–] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    1 bit audio dacs use a different architecture (delta/sigma) which had some benefits in the late '80s and in the '90s (lower cost and very linear frequency response). They are fine if implemented well

    The only dacs that suck are the cost optimized dacs in bottom of the barrel cd players and portables.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    No... Its got dual Burr-Brown DACs with variable and fixed outputs. I wish it had digital output but for $50 i'm not complaining. Sounds good on my little Edifier R1280T speakers, works for now. 😅

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I don’t think 1986 had digital outputs on consumer, probably not even on professional devices.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Toslink was a rarity back then. Related, I have a CD changer from 2001 I think. I connected it to my modern DAC and it sounded worse than the analog output. I still don't know why to this day. Shouldn't it always be better?

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