Marantz CD63 a Bargain

[Gmanuk101]

Well last night I picked up the afore mentioned cd player with remote mint condition for £40.

Initial impressions are good, sound is tight and punchy with Artic Monkey's 2nd album.

Will be trying it in my main system today (tamp, standard 720se and monitor audio bx2 bronze)

Since I only own 3 CDs a trip to the charity shop my called for.

[AlexM]

Yes, I was very fond of my old cd63-se.. A great cd player. I replaced it with a Micromega stage 3, which was a disaster from a reliability pov, and wasn't a huge improvement socially.

Regards,

Alex

[Gmanuk101]

Yes, I was very fond of my old cd63-se.. A great cd player. I replaced it with a Micromega stage 3, which was a disaster from a reliability pov, and wasn't a huge improvement socially.

Regards,

Alex


got it hooked up to the main system right now, nice player, bright and quick, although am sure the standac7520se is wrapping it up with its lovely maths :)

[Folkboy]

got it hooked up to the main system right now, nice player, bright and quick, although am sure the standac7520se is wrapping it up with its lovely maths :)

I had a CD-63 from new up until a couple of years ago (when it suddenly died) and it was a great player.

[Wakefield Turntables]

I have the cd67se and its my main silver disc spinner in my system. Mines stock at the moment but they have a cult following for the ability to tweek them. :cool:

[Reid Malenfant]

I bought a CD63 SE new many moons ago, it's still going strong, though the draw is a tad noisy (needs some lube :eyebrows:). Nice deck...

I picked up a dead 63 SE KI signature a while back for silly money, turns out the mains switch was snafu (the seller tried changing the mains fuse to no avail - so thought it was fubar & sold it cheap). Turns out it has some kind of superclock & extra PSU as well as a load of caps changed for Black Gates etc...

& of course it now works beautifully :rfl:

[RobbieGong]

The CD 63 KI signature is the one they love. It was said to be a bargain at £500 new and that you'd have to spend double plus to improve upon it. It is a superb natural sounding CD player and one of the best bargains I've ever picked up - Minty like new, All manuals, remote etc £140.00 two years ago - Still looks new and plays beautifully. :D

[RichB]

The 63 KI was one of the finest players i ever heard, seriously good for the money. Having had a few players over the years I quite like the lively Marantz presentation, they just give real life to the music.

[Gmanuk101]

listening to Blur's 13 Album at the moment, best i've heard that album.

Got some Aphex twin to test how it handles electronic nonsense.

[Puffin]

£40!!! you were done. I got one at the last Audiojumble for £20:D

Mind you it looked like it had been used as a football. Still a re-spray has it looking pristine.

Have removed the HDAM circuit and DC blocking circuitry, replaced a few caps in crucial areas, added some deadshete to the case, and put in some op-amp sockets and used some discrete GD op-amps. So not much really.....:lol:

[Wakefield Turntables]

For anyone thats interested there is a massive thread over on diyaudio.com about what can be done to the CD63

[Gmanuk101]

Just located that thread! Wow!!!!!

[Wakefield Turntables]

Yeah I started reading it to learn some tricks to mod my 67se but gave up after about 300 posts:eek:

[lovejoy]

I picked up a CD-53 (same as the 63 minus the HDAM circuit) from a car boot sale in Cardiff for £7. It looked like it had been used in a mobile disco and had a few battle scars to prove it, but the only thing wrong with it when I got it home was that the laser needed a clean.

I then spent a few weeks trawling through the aforementioned threads on tweaking, ordered about £30 of components and set about it with the soldering iron. The great thing about tweaking it is that you can choose a mod (any mod) out of the threads and perform it in isolation (mostly) to all other mods so you can get a feel for how much difference each mod makes. Things like bypassing output capacitors (which makes a really significant improvment) take nothing more than a pair of wire snips and 5 minutes of your time, whereas things like adding extra decoupling to the DAC chip takes some soldering skill and a steady hand, but it just goes to prove that there's worthwhile improvements that someone of every skill level can perform. It's also a lot of fun listening it go from a competent CD player to a real giant killer.

[Wakefield Turntables]

I picked up a CD-53 (same as the 63 minus the HDAM circuit) from a car boot sale in Cardiff for £7. It looked like it had been used in a mobile disco and had a few battle scars to prove it, but the only thing wrong with it when I got it home was that the laser needed a clean.

I then spent a few weeks trawling through the aforementioned threads on tweaking, ordered about £30 of components and set about it with the soldering iron. The great thing about tweaking it is that you can choose a mod (any mod) out of the threads and perform it in isolation (mostly) to all other mods so you can get a feel for how much difference each mod makes. Things like bypassing output capacitors (which makes a really significant improvment) take nothing more than a pair of wire snips and 5 minutes of your time, whereas things like adding extra decoupling to the DAC chip takes some soldering skill and a steady hand, but it just goes to prove that there's worthwhile improvements that someone of every skill level can perform. It's also a lot of fun listening it go from a competent CD player to a real giant killer.

:yesbruv: couldn't have put it better myself.

[Griffy]

I picked up a CD-53 (same as the 63 minus the HDAM circuit) from a car boot sale in Cardiff for £7. It looked like it had been used in a mobile disco and had a few battle scars to prove it, but the only thing wrong with it when I got it home was that the laser needed a clean.

I then spent a few weeks trawling through the aforementioned threads on tweaking, ordered about £30 of components and set about it with the soldering iron. The great thing about tweaking it is that you can choose a mod (any mod) out of the threads and perform it in isolation (mostly) to all other mods so you can get a feel for how much difference each mod makes. Things like bypassing output capacitors (which makes a really significant improvment) take nothing more than a pair of wire snips and 5 minutes of your time, whereas things like adding extra decoupling to the DAC chip takes some soldering skill and a steady hand, but it just goes to prove that there's worthwhile improvements that someone of every skill level can perform. It's also a lot of fun listening it go from a competent CD player to a real giant killer.

I'd be very interested in what you did to yours, as I still have mine here from new!
I just sold the Marantz PM44 mkII se amp that went with it, but a few tweaks on this sounds like fun!

Thanks in advance :thumbsup:

[Wakefield Turntables]

This could be the beginnings of a new thread for cd67/63 tweeking!