VICTOR Brand CD Players

[jives11]

hi,

I know someone selling a Victor brand cd player. I have never heard of Victor, though the face looks suspiciously like a Philips to me. Anyone know which chipsets the use ? Model is an XL-V231

 

[jean-paul]

That is a JVC ( Japan Victor Company ).

 

[poynton]

hi,

I know someone selling a Victor brand cd player. I have never heard of Victor, though the face looks suspiciously like a Philips to me. Anyone know which chipsets the use ? Model is an XL-V231

It does have a vaguely Philips look about the front but not the back panel. 4 times oversampling.

No SPDIF !

The only info I could find on the range :-

JVC XL-V131 LC7881 - YM7121B (filter) OPTIMA-5
JVC XL-V221 LC7881 OPTIMA-5
JVC XL-V242 JVC - JCE4501 - CXD2554P (filter) OPTIMA-5S
JVC XL-V250 PCM56 OPTIMA-2
JVC XL-V264 MN35500 OPTIMA-6S

Not much help but looks like it is not Philips based.


Andy

 

[jitter]

My first CD-player was a JVC XL-V231!
I looked up the receipt (yes, I still have that) and I bought it 11-29-1990. It was not a very expensive player, but well-built nevertheless. My father still uses it on a daily basis and in those 18+ years it has never failed.

But... it doesn't look like the Victor on eBay at all... it looks like this:

The DAC was called "PEM DD converter" by JVC, which was JVC's version of a low-bit converter (which was not unlike Technics' M.A.S.H. DAC).

It has no S/PDIF output and is definitely not Philips based. At the time the Japanese used:
press > first time: PLAY
press > again: PAUSE
and Philips:
press > first time: PLAY
press > again: REPLAY
Philips used a separate PAUSE button.

 

[Malefoda]

FYI:
http://www.lampizator.eu/lampizator...JVC K2 XL-Z1050 CD Player with XRCD dac.html

I am looking for a cheap CDP right now until I find a spare part/player for mine, maybe I can/shall try one...

 

[three_legend]

I am still using my almost 20 years old Victor CD player XL-V90. Build great, sound great... It is use Burr Brown DAC and Yamaha chipset inside.

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

where I get parts for the transport "EXU-901A", used e. g. in the Victor XL-Z900?
go to
VICTOR CDƒvƒŒƒCƒ„�[XL-Z900‚ÌŽd—l ƒrƒNƒ^�[

In this case I have start this thread:
http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/digi...ch-ct-1-ct1-better-than-vam1254-cdpro2lf.html

By post #6 was mentioned the model "XL-V90". There are no informations online.
by the way - Victor was one of the best japanese brands in the 70th and 80th - look about
http://audio-heritage.jp/VICTOR/

 

[three_legend]

My Victor CD Player

I've photo my CD player, take a look:

 

[tiefbassuebertr]

Laser unit's (optical pick up's) from JVC's "OPTIMA" series are one of the ones with highest reliability, even by the cheapest 20 year old JVC player models. Until this day I haven't found a "wear and tear" unit from JVC but several hundred from Sony KSS series. The reason therefore is "long-life" lens suspension (no plastic in opposite to SONY) and obviously long life laser diodes.