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    Join Date: Nov 2010

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    I'm Ritchie.

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    Afternoon.

    Yesterday I received this special player.

    The Sony CDP-5000 was one of the first cd players created by Sony. This machine is serial number 56 and is one of the few remaining broadcast machines. I guess you could compare it to a digital version of the big EMT 927 or Neumann machines but with fewer numbers.

    The cd player functions with a seperate CDA (CD Analyser). This dedicated computer can be used to analyse the cds, to check for noise and errors! I have yet to fully understand the functions so bare with me on that one.

    The original selling price of this system was 1.8 million yen in 1983, almost 20,000 euros. The guy we bought it from was a president of a National recording studio in Tokyo. He bought it from new and also sold off his EMT 927dst.

    We plan to publish an expose with Vintage Knob and also Sony Europe about the player. The system has true heritage status.

    http://www.thevintageknob.org/sony-CDP-5000.html

    In the next week or so I will have some help to lift the bass cabinets of the Technics SB-10000 speakers into the studio...then we can have a real play. For the moment I have just been listening to the small monitor speaker built into the box on top of the player....

    Its a real keeper, it can play without the seperate computer, XLR out naturally! It will be interesting to compare the playback to the reference players I have here. I am really thinking that the playback will be extremely good.
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    What a beautiful bit of kit

    You lucky bugger, those speakers are something else as well

    I wish i had room to house the stuff let alone afford to buy it
    Bests, Mark



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    Join Date: Nov 2010

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    Lol.

    Yeah it is pretty bonkers isn't it. It is a very lucky find, we have been waiting for ages to find one and then we just made a random call and that was it.

    I need a rest now. I must have lifted over 650kg of kit into the studio yesterday, leaving the speaker cabinets for last. They are a 3 man job at least.

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    I also have one of these with s/n 64.
    It was used in the Sony CD manufacturing factory in austria
    for quality control. I brought it home this week and this was
    a real adventure. I will try it out soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CC911 View Post
    I also have one of these with s/n 64.
    It was used in the Sony CD manufacturing factory in austria
    for quality control. I brought it home this week and this was
    a real adventure. I will try it out soon.
    Photos and a full report then please
    Current Lash Up:

    TEAC VRDS 701T > Sony TAE1000ESD > Krell KSA50S > JM Labs Focal Electra 926.

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