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Philips
CD960
(1987 - 1989)
Doesn't look like much, eh?
Well... it was very much: cutting edge and true high-end.
For there's a TOS optical fiber output in the CD960,
a nd very select parts, and an integrated amplifier for the cans'
output, and dual 16bit Silver Crown DACs... minus the preamp/volume
function and XLR outputs, the CD960
in fact holds a complete DAC960
!
And, better yet: there is a CDM-1
mechanism in this very 1980s-ish design.
Praised as Absolute Spitzenklasse and Referenz in Germany in 1987.
As a drive I bet the CD960 still is
at least that much.
(scroll
down the page for the real picture)
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