Micro Seiki CD-M100

Micro's third and penultimate CD player, also based on the Philips model as used by Marantz in the CD-94 series and Philips in the original LHH1000 model for all - gone were the hurried 1983 days of the Kyocera DA-01 rebadge, aka Micro CD-M1.

The CD-M100 is an updated CD-M2 (270,000¥, 1987) with completely reshaped feet : the feet of M2 became hydraulic suspensions on the M100. Plus minor circuit changes. But at 400,000¥, the update was perhaps a bit too steep and certainly not visible enough.

The CD-M100 holds the base of the LHH1001 drive (reworked in the servo section) and adds the d/a PCB of the LHH1002 which is however also completely reworked.
Compared to the LHH1000 (...and many variants), the power supply in the CD-M100 is completely different (different transformer, heatsink outside) and so are the XLR output stages which see (custom) balancing transformers added.

The rest is the same winning team : Philips TDA1541A and Philips CDM1. The woodbase and wood-encased remote control inherited from the CD-M2 are a matter of... taste :)
22kg of finely fine-tuned high-fidelity.

Micro would produce a fourth and ultimate CD player before vanishing, in 1992 : CD-M2000X.