自己从美国玩家手中纳入的CD机子。自己拍了一张，网上劫了一张照片，大家认为这个玩艺值多少米呢？想出让了，高了，给人骂黑心，低了，自己不爽。毕竟辛辛苦苦从国外背回来。
美国电压，话说清楚，自己亲手从烧友那里买入，绝对不和洋垃圾同日而语。
MARANTZ CD54 The first Compact Disc players arrived in 1982 and finally reached British punters a year later. The UK hi-fi press promptly split straight down the middle over the new formats relative merits relative to established superdecks of the day such as the Linn and Oracle. To the poor customer, it was a wall of confusion - some journalists celebrated CD uncritically, apparently ecstatic that it had banished all of analogue's traditional bugbears like hiss, wow and flutter. The result was that the first generation of silver disc spinners has become largely forgotten. Shame, because many of the very first players had a sound quite unlike any others that followed, and one that was - ironically - far more analogue and musical than most of today's high end esoterica. The Marantz CD54 you see here is practically a museum piece. Made in 1984, it's a late first generation design using Philips' exquisite CDM-1 Pro metal die-cast transport mechanism and the same company's Palaeolithic 14bit, 4 times oversampling DAC/filter package. Despite its midi size, the thing weighs a ton - evidence that the consumer electronics giants built their very first generation players to last. As they cost CD's 'early adopters' a packet, it was only right that they weren't plastic boxes full of air, I guess! Using it is a riot - it feels as clunky as the Pioneer cassette deck, but slower to respond! Press the Open button and a CD drawer the size and mass of the Clifton Suspension Bridge lumbers out to greet you. Put the disc in and press PLAY and you can go off and make brew before the music's started. When it does finally see it's way to reading the disc's table of contents, the digital time display starts (hurrah!) and the fun begins. Anyone who thinks big is better, and more bits and oversampling maketh a superior silver disc spinner will learn something playing this baby. It sounds incredibly analogue for something so self-avowedly digital - bass isn't far off the Sansui turntable in its warm and softness, and is barely any tighter either. The mid band doesn't have much in the way of level detail, but what instruments you do hear have a beautifully rich and sonorous texture. Treble is the biggest disappointment - what there is sweet and silky, but it sounds rather perfunctory. Interestingly though, it isn't harsh and painful as you'd expect from its meagre 14bit DAC - quite the reverse in fact, it's fluffy and vague and cloudy. The CD54 is an incredibly musical way of listening to digital discs - it's obviously a long way off the likes of even a good mid-range modern machine (i.e. Rega's Planet 2000) in many hi-fi respects like dynamics and detailing, but is still a hoot to listen to. The fact is that there are lots of machines still going that use this transport/DAC/digital filter combination - from Philips' original CD100 to its CD104B - and all are reasonably priced. If you can live without a remote, programming facilities and S/PDIF digital outputs, then they're well worth searching out. Likewise, pathological CD haters may just find them an acceptable way into the delights (?) of the digital disc!
