{"id":8220,"date":"2025-10-11T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/?page_id=8220"},"modified":"2025-11-05T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:37:22","slug":"i-lettori-philips-e-jvc-1987-1992","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/istillplayvinyl\/alta-fedelta\/il-mio-impianto\/i-lettori-philips-e-jvc-1987-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Philips and JVC players (1987-1992)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first digital player was a Philips CD-16 (below) I bought in the second half of the 80s. A renown HiFi shop in Rome sold it to me as a bitstream (or 1-bit) player, the new Philips technology for D\/A conversion sections known for giving low price players an unusually good sound for the times. As I found out on the minute I arrived home, it was an ordinary 16-bit CD player, as it was made clear by its very name. I decided to keep it all the same since I thought Philips had invented the CD whose standard is based on 16-bit sampled sound. I also happened to like the sound thanks to the fact I had no turntable at the time (my first one was certainly not fine-tuned, since I didn\u2019t know much about adjustments then). Furthermore, I had been playing a cassette deck for years, no wonder I found the CD sound quality superior\u2026<\/p>\n

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Philips CD 16<\/p><\/div>\n

A few years later, browsing through HiFi magazines, I was struck by the review of the JVC ZL-Z431 (below), a CD player that really used bitstream technology. The price was extremely inviting, a bit less than 200 thousand Lire, and the performance promised to embarrass the competitors. I sold the Philips CD and bought the JVC along with an Onlyo A-8200 integrated amplifier (in a different shop, obviously). When eventually I upgraded my system with the TDL loudspeakers and the Unison Research amp, the JVC player, though good, was not worth the rest of the system. I had just graduated,<\/p>\n

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JVC XL-Z431<\/p><\/div>\n

I had no job, I dreamed about players such as the Meridian 506 CD but I certainly could not afford it at around 1 million Lire. I resigned myself to look for unsold stock models that had just gone out of production and were sold at lower prices.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first digital player was a Philips CD-16 (below) I bought in the second half of the 80s. A renown HiFi shop in Rome sold it to me as a bitstream (or 1-bit) player, the new Philips technology for D\/A conversion sections known for giving low price players an unusually good sound for the times. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8220\/revisions\/8225"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pasqualerobustini.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}