The CD-73 is surely one of the best loved and best remembered of the first generation of CD players. With its eye-catching looks, it stood out among a sea of bland black boxes. Usually it would have been difficult for a company of Marantz's standing to come up with a fully engineered model so quickly, but having recently secured the backing of Philips, it was able to release not one but two class-leading CD players for the opening 1983 season. One was the CD-63, an unmodified Philips CD100 [HFN Oct '11] sporting a gold anodised finish with Marantz scripting. The other was the CD-73. Although still a Philips player made in a Belgian Philips factory, this machine had more of a Marantz identity.
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