Philips CD303 CD Player

摘要

While Sony can lay claim to have been the first company to market with a CD player in the US and Japan, it was Philips that won the race in Europe with its CD100 [HFN Oct '11], which went into mass production in late 1982. Also marketed as the Marantz CD-63, the CD100 set the pace for the first generation of CD players. Not only was it smaller than the Japanese competition but also more technically advanced. Where the Japanese players made do with a single DAC shared between left and right channels and running at 44.1 kHz, Philips used a dedicated DAC per channel with a clever four-times oversampling digital filter that operated each at 176.4kHz.