Is this a real TDA1541A?

Who knows-...

How a TDA1542 sounds?
I guess, I'll be one of the firsts here in diyaudio.com...

P.S.: of course I know what it is, it was used in the early portable Philips CD players...
 

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Philips abandoned it quite quickly. Taste is a personal matter but I didn't think it was special with regards to sound quality. It is special today as one rarely sees one :)

Are you serious about the NE5532/NE5534? Original Signetics versions of the NE5534 were/are great opamps.
 
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I meant humble more as "ordinary" - Did you ever listened to a TDA1542? I mean, the only CD-player i did find that used it was the CD207. Well, I'll see, as all the needed parts can easily be salvaged from the other old Philips CDs. I guess it was abandoned because it was way to expensive to manufacture - given that even most of the high-grade Philips CD players used LM833s... And not their own Signetics NE5532s
 
I meant humble more as "ordinary" - Did you ever listened to a TDA1542? I mean, the only CD-player i did find that used it was the CD207. Well, I'll see, as all the needed parts can easily be salvaged from the other old Philips CDs. I guess it was abandoned because it was way to expensive to manufacture - given that even most of the high-grade Philips CD players used LM833s... And not their own Signetics NE5532s


At that time, the jump in quality from record / FM Stereo radio to CD was so huge that the quality of the op amps doesn't matter. The people were more than satisfied.
 
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Btw, all my shown TDA1541As are real, all harvested from old CD Players. Some have been covered with polyimid tape to preserve the printing. I have a fetish to clean all my boards thoroughly with IPA once in a while. Long ago, I did that with nitro thinner, the poor victim is shown on the lower left.