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Old 7th Feb 2023, 3:49 pm   #67
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Default Re: On This Day In 1983 Philips Launched The CD.

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Wasn't there a CD player made, I think, by an American company called California Dream, that used valves in all the signal path electronics appart from the drive mechanism?

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You may be thinking of California Audio Labs and their models like the Tempest, which was nothing more than a Philips CD player stuck in a bigger box with a valve output stage tacked on. Cynical "high end" at its finest!

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Yes, that must be it. I think i saw it in a Hi-Fi mag, about 1990.

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