Marantz CD-73
(1983 - 1984)

Probably the 3rd most remembered Digital Audio Disc player in Europe.
Tacky looks as per the other contemporary Marantz, errr, Philips units. This was Marantz version of the Philips CD 303, ready as a final design before the Philips unit was and originally named CD-83, a pre-production sample of which you can see in the Invisibilia section of this website.

Marantz didn't fancy the 35cm format CD-63 and therefore didn't push its sales much - the opposite of Philips who was pushing the CD 100 sales ;-)
Center of the CD 100, CD-63 or CD-73 was the Philips CDM-1 mechanism and the Philips TDA-1540 digital to analogue chip, a common combination in those days.

Helped by the Marantz "aura", the CD-73 sold very well, except in Japan. Many are still around and most are still playing Digital Audio Discs just like way back in 1983 because the Philips CDM-1 really is of the undying kind. Early production units had the original CDM-0.