Frog-n-Oatcakes
07-01-2011, 13:31
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.... :lol:
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.
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.... :lol:
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.