Slim but solid metal player from when CD just seemed to be able to perhaps make a dent into expected LP sales, logic successor lineup-wise and size-wise to the original CDP-101 bestseller : CDP-101 > CDP-102.
The audio board was also used in the ES CDP-302ES.
Inside are Sony's own chips and the famed, long-lasting magnet-driven linear CD motor ; weighing 5,7kg, this was still very healthy second generation CD.
Looks-wise, the CDP-102 is much better in real life than on the crudely lit image above.
The silver pads made for an excellent design idea : they are in fact a single pad etched differently to outline the respective functions - even better.
Although Sony already had Beta decks with such an output in 1983, there still was no PCM output on this mid-end player but the mysterious "subcode out" - the former was for the bigger ES series only while the latter was to vanish with the CDP-102.
In the same lineup, selling rather well was the CDP-302 : same mechanism, better audio boards, wider but sans silver pads - can't have everything.
More about the 102 at the indispensable http://vintage-audio-laser.com.