07-06-2014, 08:17 AM
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World's Oldest Audiophile
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Tennessee, U.S.A.
Posts: 8,536
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Originally Posted by jdandy
Eduardo.......The Sony CDP-555ESD was manufactured in 1986. This makes it nearly a 3 decade old CD player. It was considered a high-end player and was Sony's first CD player that had digital output. That is what the D in the 555ESD stood for. It is a dinosaur by todays standards of digital audio performance. In 1987 the MSRP was $1500.00.
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Checking with my friendly inflation calculator . . . the cost of that excellent CD player today, adjusted for inflation would be . . . $3,141.29
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I have a record player and a cd player and some other stuff that sounds pretty good.
MAIN SYSTEM: . . . Audio Physic Caldera III Loudspeakers, Spectral DMC 30SL Preamp, Spectral DMA 250 Amp, Spectral/MIT interconnects and speaker cable, Basis Debut V Vacuum turntable, Walker Precision Speed Controller, Graham tonearm, [B]Koetsu Rosewood or Grado Statement 1 Cartridges, PASS - X-ono Phono Stage, Esoteric K03 CD/SACD Player, Lexicon RT-20 Universal Player, Exact Power EP-15A & SP-15A power regeneration and conditioning devices. Symposium Acoustics Svelte pads & RollerBlock Jr's under speakers. ASC Tube Traps, Arcici Suspense Rack System, OPPO and Cambridge Streaming Devices.
DOWNSTAIRS SYSTEM: . . . Sonus Faber Guarneri Memento Speakers, JL Audio F112 Sub, McIntosh MA7000 Integrated Amp, McIntosh MVP871 Universal Disc Player, OPPO BDP-105 Blu-Ray Player, VPI Scoutmaster with periphery ring clamp, VPI SDS Motor Drive, Koetsu Pro IV, or Clearaudio Discovery Cartridges, Mark Levinson No. 25s phono stage, Wadia 170i Transport with a Meridian Bitstream 203 DAC, VPI HW-17 Pro Record Cleaning Machine, Five Richard Gray RGPC 400 devices scattered around the two systems, Arcici Suspense Rack System, Discovery Essence and Essential Cables, 14,000 ± LPs .
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