Philips CD960 CD player

摘要

The Philips CD960 of 1987 was part of a range that included the FA860 amplifier [HFN Feb '20]. As one of the company's occasional flirtations with the top end of hi-fi, this series was intended to demonstrate that the Dutch brand could offer components capable of state-of-the-art performance, as well as provide a boost in status to the more affordable models in the range. With CD having by then become a highly competitive marketplace, Philips had been compelled to innovate to maintain the leadership its players had enjoyed during the first few years of the format. Back then, most Japanese equipment offered just a single DAC, time-shared between the two stereo channels, allied to an analogue filter. By contrast, Philips fitted separate left and right DACs and a fourfold oversampling digital filter to all its models.