Technics Mash CD Players

[eldarvanyar]

Are there any fans or users of Technics CD players?Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of Technics CD Players?
I am thinking about buying and trying out some of the following CD players:

SL-PG540
SL-PS770D
SL-PS840
SL-S50 or SL-S70

To be honest I have always looked down on Technics CD Players mainly influenced by the HiFi press reviews.

I know that they span previous years and are possibly quite old now,
and there may be newer models that are better.

Are there certain transports and dacs to seek out or avoid? I am keen on build quality as well as sound.

Thanks

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[indie roehre]

Hello Lee, I use the SL-PS620 A. Better sounding than my other CD players, Micromega Stage 1, Creek Evolution, Grundig CD303, Myryad MC 100. It is the only one which never had a technical problem. With seperate DAC it is a top performer. It is based on the CDM 4/19.
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[eldarvanyar]

Hi Indie,
Thanks for taking the time to reply and posting a picture. I did the post on my phone and didn't have time to insert pictures.
I have never really been really satisfied with playing CD as I have always found it fatiguing. I started with a Marantz CD50SE in 1990 with the TDA1541A – SAA7220P/B.
I have tried Sony, Micromega, AVI, Yamaha, Philips.
It may be the Technics MASH CD DACs are worth trying.

The Philips CDM4 seems to be a good transport.

If you had up to £300 to spend what would you look out for?

Thanks

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[Macca]

Possible that your vintage amplifier is the problem, it's input sensitivity is very high, it predates CD players which usually have 2V output and may be overloading the input and causing fatiguing sound.

You could try in line attenuators or have the amp modified to reduce gain.

[Pigmy Pony]

My next door neighbour has a 'Mash' Technics player. He owned a hifi shop, which he sold and retired some years ago, so has probably heard a fair few players over the years. I don't know which model, but I could find out.

[Macca]

They sound better when you're drinking heavily, hence the saying 'For MASH get smashed.'

[Stryder5]

They sound better when you're drinking heavily, hence the saying 'For MASH get smashed.'

brilliant :lol:

[Pigmy Pony]

They sound better when you're drinking heavily, hence the saying 'For MASH get smashed.'


https://youtu.be/D62EIS4FhJ0?t=18

[indie roehre]

Hi Indie,
Thanks for taking the time to reply and posting a picture. I did the post on my phone and didn't have time to insert pictures.
I have never really been really satisfied with playing CD as I have always found it fatiguing. I started with a Marantz CD50SE in 1990 with the TDA1541A – SAA7220P/B.
I have tried Sony, Micromega, AVI, Yamaha, Philips.
It may be the Technics MASH CD DACs are worth trying.

The Philips CDM4 seems to be a good transport.

If you had up to £300 to spend what would you look out for?

Thanks

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I would go for Creek Evolution 1. I have this one here. Or one step further, a transport CDT 6000, I got today a silver edition from a friend for a few days. But I just ordered a black one for me in this moment. The Audiolab CDT 6000 is fantastic. Regards.

[johnwhit]

I'm currently using a Technics SL-PS 620A and I'm very happy with the sound. I've published a page over on FaceBook with regard to early Technics CD players and thought it may be of some interest:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075994983510

John

[johnwhit]

My next door neighbour has a 'Mash' Technics player. He owned a hifi shop, which he sold and retired some years ago, so has probably heard a fair few players over the years. I don't know which model, but I could find out.

I'd be curious to know if he chose a certain model:scratch:

[Pigmy Pony]

I'll call round tomorrow and find out the model name/number.

[johnwhit]

I'll call round tomorrow and find out the model name/number.

Thanks Steve much appreciated :)

[Pigmy Pony]

Hi John, this is the model my next door neighbour has, he has owned it since retiring and closing his shop twenty-odd years ago. He has never felt the need to replace it, and it's still going strong. Model number SL-PS770D.

https://audio-database.com/TechnicsPanasonic/player/sl-ps770d.JPG

[oldius]

I rate my Technics DAC very, very highly:

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49563952806_b41015f6dc_c.jpg

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51711830792_f87fa03842_c.jpg

It is the SH-X1000, from 1990.

[johnwhit]

Hi John, this is the model my next door neighbour has, he has owned it since retiring and closing his shop twenty-odd years ago. He has never felt the need to replace it, and it's still going strong. Model number SL-PS770D.

https://audio-database.com/TechnicsPanasonic/player/sl-ps770d.JPG

Thanks for asking Steve they're a well built piece of kit and that model received good reviews in it's time. I'm still using my SL-PS620A, 32 years old, never let me down and won't part with it :)

[majex45]

I have a couple of Technics MASH players. One in the workshop (SLPG 270 from memory bought new in the 80s (?)) is still working fine after many years and being in the unheated garage/workshop. Brilliant reliability and (in my opinion) good enough sound for the w/shop.

[The Black Adder]

I had a MASH cd player once. It was a very nice sounding CDP.

It was in a midi system, I seem to remember it saying 1bit mash Dac on the front.

Great little system.

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[Andy831]

Hi John, this is the model my next door neighbour has, he has owned it since retiring and closing his shop twenty-odd years ago. He has never felt the need to replace it, and it's still going strong. Model number SL-PS770D.

https://audio-database.com/TechnicsPanasonic/player/sl-ps770d.JPG

That's one busy looking faceplate, although I do really like it. I can't say I have ever seen or heard one of these machines.

[Lawrence001]

That's one busy looking faceplate, although I do really like it. I can't say I have ever seen or heard one of these machines.That's nothing compared to the SL-P990 which I yearned for when I started out in hifi. Purely driven by the count of buttons and volume of information on the display, I have to admit, which had to mean it sounded better than all the other ones.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20251023/dceb0479e6be4c76b99f578812d4518d.jpg

[Pigmy Pony]

Yeah but it doesn't say MASH on it - like the aliens used to say on the adverts: "For smashing sound get MASH" :)

[Macca]

Yeah but it doesn't say MASH on it - like the aliens used to say on the adverts: "For smashing sound get MASH" :)

Multi bit conversion that's why. I've got a 770 stashed away.

They stopped them using aliens in adverts I think. Like with the PG Tips chimps it was exploitation.

[Alex_UK]

I’ve got a couple stashed away, too. (Technics MASH CD players, not Smash Aliens, though to be fair I wouldn’t mind one of those!)

[Lawrence001]

Yeah but it doesn't say MASH on it - like the aliens used to say on the adverts: "For smashing sound get MASH" :)True but it's got more buttons than any Mash player I've seen so it obviously sounds better.

[Macca]

Those buttons difficult for the sausage-fingered.

[Pigmy Pony]

Multi bit conversion that's why. I've got a 770 stashed away.

They stopped them using aliens in adverts I think. Like with the PG Tips chimps it was exploitation.

And yet the Fairy Liquid adverts are ok with showing a baby riding a sponge across a dirty pan. Honestly it's one rule for them and another for the rest of us. No wonder chimps grow up so bad tempered, PG Tips was a good earner for them :(

[Macca]

And yet the Fairy Liquid adverts are ok with showing a baby riding a sponge across a dirty pan. Honestly it's one rule for them and another for the rest of us. No wonder chimps grow up so bad tempered, PG Tips was a good earner for them :(

Their only earner, aside from ripping the windscreen wipers off of cars in the safari park and selling them on ebay.

Which, let's face it, won't bring in much.

[Alex_UK]

Their only earner, aside from ripping the windscreen wipers off of cars in the safari park and selling them on ebay.

Which, let's face it, won't bring in much.

You're forgetting that some of them were astronauts - I doubt that's a minimum wage job, although to be fair I don't think it has been a gig for chimps for a few decades now and I doubt the pension was that good.

[Pigmy Pony]

Their only earner, aside from ripping the windscreen wipers off of cars in the safari park and selling them on ebay.

Which, let's face it, won't bring in much.

Round here they tend to sell them at car boot sales. But they're not fooling me - despite shaving their body hair and covering themselves with tattoos, their simian features are a dead giveaway.

[Macca]

This was your ultimate Technics MASH - SL-P900

https://i.ibb.co/spXwFHQc/compact-disc-player-sl-p900-2493702.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)

[Alex_UK]

My Marantz SA7001 KI Signature SACD player appears to have given up the ghost as have the 2 KI Signature players that came before it. I'm grabbing one of the Technics players from the garage tomorrow, not been used in years, I bet it will be fine...

[Lawrence001]

This was your ultimate Technics MASH - SL-P900

https://i.ibb.co/spXwFHQc/compact-disc-player-sl-p900-2493702.jpg (https://imgbb.com/)Epic fail on the design, they got rid of the plethora of buttons.