A guy on ebay has a MB-1 which he claims has a world class chip that Nak was sued by McIntosh over. Anyone have any knowledge of this? I always thought MB-1 was just a cosmetic redo of their year earlier CD Player 1. There is almost no info of either unit on web other than just DAC's used.
Absolute nonsense. The MB1/CDPlayer1 does use a then-innovative use of staggered 18bit r2r dacs to create allegedly 20bit performance, using a PCM1700 dual dac per channel, but the exotic-ness ends there. The McIntosh connection is ONLY that they adopted the CDPlayer2/MB2(same as the 1, but with opamp output stages instead of discrete) as their MCD7008 model, with the fancy Mac chassis/cosmetics being the only change from the Nak model. There was never any controversy between Mac & Nak. A really mint MB1, with three new belts installed, is worth these days only about 300-400usd. That ebay seller is dreaming with his price. It is a great sounding player, and, with new belts, my pick for best cd changer ever, but it ain't worth all that much.
Thanks Stephen, I did think it was a bit pricey. Are you saying MB1 sounds better than CDPlayer 1 or are they pretty much the same?
No, the MB-1 & CDPlayer1 are exactly the same player, just different cosmetics. The MB-1s/2s/3s/4s that came after were wholly different & not as good players, but the MB-1/2/3 were just cosmetically changed CDPlayer1/2/3. Just for the sake of avoiding confusion.
That's kinda what I thought. I had a MB1s and still have a 10s. Both seem much cheaper made than earlier models with 10s appearing to have a car mechanism. Guess they cut costs in late 90's except for Dragons which INMO were overpriced.
The 10s was pretty bad, and was, indeed, the same mech as their indash car changer. The 1s series was at least marginally respectable.
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