Vintage Audio- CD players I
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CD players arrived on the scene in the 1980s and quickly supplanted vinyl as the dominate audio-media. Unlike cassettes and LPs, CDs are a purely digital media. They reproduce sound with complete fidelity.
Compact Disks (CD) are optical disks which are read by IR laser. Data stored on audio CDs follow formats defined by the Rainbow books. Prior to 1988, the audio standard was defined by the Red Book. It was superseded by the Red Book in 1988 and by the Orange Book in 1990. There have been other standards but they deal with other CD technologies more applicable to data applications.
The first generation of CD players were very much like cassette players. They played one CD at a time. They connect to the amplifier by a pair of RCA cables.
This old Pioneer unit is ~ 20 years old and still working. Its operation is very, very simple: put in the CD, play, pause, track forward or back.
Note the simplicity of the back. There is a power cable and a hookup for a pair of RCA cables. That's it.
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