my buy of the day.....

[M@tt]

Hello,

I'm Matt from the Netherlands and I'm 29 years of age and bought myself another CD player (I used to play my CD's on a Sony cdp xa2 ES)
I bought a Marantz CD80 .
I had a few very usefull reads on this forum and found a great lack of pictures from this wonderfull cd player on the net so....

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[BrianGT]

Originally posted by M@tt
Hello,

I'm Matt from the Netherlands and I'm 29 years of age and bought myself another CD player (I used to play my CD's on a Sony cdp xa2 ES)
I bought a Marantz CD80 .
I had a few very usefull reads on this forum and found a great lack of pictures from this wonderfull cd player on the net so....

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Brian

[jleaman]

How much did you pay ? Looks like a nice project.

[M@tt]

Originally posted by jleaman
How much did you pay ? Looks like a nice project.

thx m8, I've payed € 150,00 for it. It was from the original first owner who had bought it in 1990, it works perfect and is complete with remotecontrol and ownersmanual

[renes3]

Are you going to use it as a transport or a cd-player?

If you are going to use it as a cd-player, you should get rid of the beautyful "Ishiwata" lights, variable output and the headphones out.

René

[M@tt]

Originally posted by renes3
Are you going to use it as a transport or a cd-player?

If you are going to use it as a cd-player, you should get rid of the beautyful "Ishiwata" lights, variable output and the headphones out.

René

I'm going to use it as a CD player for now....
What do the lights do? and the headphones and variable output is something I'm not going to use....so they wont be a problem (aren't they?)

Someone told me it has already been modified a bit by installing new (blackgate) elkoos....

[renes3]

M@tt,

The lights have no function whatsoever, pure cosmetic feature.
You have a pretty standard looking cd-80, or is that about to change M@tt?

The digital output cable, the variable output and the headphone part have already been removed from my cd-80. Makes the cd-80 slightly better after they have been removed. It is now up for a complete overhaul, and after that the complete digital out and the variable output part on the main pcb will be gone to.

Less is better.

René

[jean-paul]

Ahem, please first listen to the cdplayer with the lights and then temporarily disconnect the lights for judgement......

You can use green LEDs there with resistors in series.

[M@tt]

Hmmmmmmz.....

Jean-Paul, I've read many posts on the CD80 now, and want to know, how much is it going to cost me to modifie the CD80? And what will that bring me?

[jean-paul]

You can make it as expensive as you want. Just replace all the caps, the 4 opamps in the analog section and add a clock as a minimum. What caps, opamps and clock you choose have a lot of influence on the total amount of money. When doing it the dutch way it will be around 150 tot 200 euros.

What you have after modding can be read in the various threads about CD80.