[vonnie123]

I bought all of the Steely Dan CDs available when I got my first CD player.  First player was a Sony CDP-202 circa 1985.  Had one of those square D series Sony walkman CD players for the car too.

Still have an old SONY CDP-601ES 5 disc carosel changers in my garage boxed up.

[pumpkinman]

Can't really remember when I bought it but it was my 1st CD purchase and I still have it to this day.
I'm thinking maybe 1986

[KCLam]

These are very interesting submissions, it does evokes memories for me, especially the comment from rif about CD packaged in long cardboard boxes!

Are you still using your first CD player when your first CD was purchased?
Is it a playable unit? If not, are you still keeping it?

My first player was the Accuphase 80/81L Transport/DAC and I sold it off 10 years ago.
Kinda crazy when I think about it now; to plonk $ on such a high end item when I was just starting a career and building a family in the early 80's.

[yeldarb]

After listening to the first few cd players on the market, I ordered a Denon 1500, sight unseen, ears unheard.  It sounded warm and natural compared to the white noise washed interpretation of the Technics, of the day.  And it is in a box in the back room.  Still worked, 30 years old, last time I hooked it up, though the remote gave up long ago.  Went next to an unfiltered, non-oversampling battery powered Ack! dac and an NEC drive.  Then, to an Ack!2 and an Onkyo, which is warm and quite lp like.  It will play about any cd.  Have a Geek Pulse Infinity on the way.  And in the interim, a Geek Out.  It is especially good with the external power supply and improves my computer file playback a ton.  But the Ack2 is still hard to top.

I can't remember the first cd.  May have been Barbara Streisand or Frankie Goes to Hollywood.  Talk about 2 sides of a coin.  Never buy solely on reviews.  Always buy something you are sure you will like.   

Still have a Sony portable.  It works, sometimes.

[Brad]

Supertramp, Breakfast in America.  Bought it before I had access to a CD player in mid-80s.

[Markvdv]

"Free" packed in the box with cdp-101:

[mcgsxr]

I also bought the DDD Brothers in Arms as my first cd.  Had to borrow my brothers CD player to hear it!

[charmerci]

Donald Fagan - The Nightfly

I bought it used in 1987. I think I still have it somewhere...

[JLM]

Been through many CDP's since 1984.  I can remember the first being a Yamaha that stopped tracking, a NAD that I lost in a divorce, a cheap Sony (all I could afford after the divorce), Sony XA20ES (still have it), Sony 77 that I sold to Brian Cheney before it died (reported to be really good but prone to failures), one of the earliest Oppo which finally died, Onyx that I bought "B" stock but died way too young, and a couple of DVD players in the A/V system.  The XA20ES doesn't get used much since going with the computer 19 months ago.

[HsvHeelFan]

Easy question.

When I bought my Yamaha CD player in March of 1984, the 2 CD's I purchases were:

Telarc  -  Cleveland Orchestra - Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition (I think it was recorded in '79)  Lorin Maazel conducts

The Alan Parson's Project - I Robot


I still have both, even though they're on my music server in  FLAC format and I still listen to them regularly.

Everything else about my system from back then is long gone.    The Yamaha NS-1000 studio monitors were replaced by KEF's in 1995.  The Yamaha Integrated Amp gave up in 2001 and was replaced by a Bryston 4B-ST with a Parasound pre-amp.

HsvHeelFan