CD Player, please help me identify from description.
 

Hi,

I have done several google image searches by brands and models, but haven’t been able to figure it out.

I seem to remember that back in the eighties there was a company making a CD player along with possibly pre amps and amps that were black in color with rounded corners and most importantly extremely clean front panels with very few buttons, etc.

I would think these were mid to high range components, but not crazy expensive. They were sold by Audio King here in MN.

I thought it might have been called CD-1 and made by Adcom or ADS, but my searches haven’t found what my mind remembers. I really think the brand started with an “A”, but we all know how well our brains work after 40 years!

Anyone have a guess or info?

Thanks,
Rutager

Aiwa?

Don’t think it was AIWA, I think it was higher end and not as mass produced.

I did do an image search on AWIA and didn’t turn up anything.

Thanks for the suggestion. Maybe I should search audio brands that start with A, although I’m not positive that it did start with A.

Just searched ADC and couldn’t find what I was looking for either

Adcom?
I remember their stuff was higher end.

?
https://www.stereophile.com/images/s...ega.promo_.jpg

Thanks for the guess, I should have been clearer, the front is a flat rectangle and just the corners are rounded in just one plane.

Thanks Steve, my first guess as well, but found nothing that looks like what I remembered.

https://www.soundstagenetwork.com/pics/acd11.jpg

https://www.stereophile.com/images/a.../arcd1pic1.jpg

THe bottom is the audio research CD1 I am hoping to win a prize

No sheiße! I knew they made speakers. My dad had a killer set that I'd give a toe to have today. I had no idea that they made components.

Not it, unfortunately. The rounded corners are what I remember, but in black, no handles and maybe half as high as that unit.

I’d have said Cyrus 40 but it’s too new

ESOTERIC P-0S CD, but it doesn't meet the clean, few button criteria. And they're not cheap!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1739411923.jpg

Theta??? I know, doesn’t start with an ‘A’ but, I remember them being pretty sano, rounded front face plate corners.

"PS Audio" ??? (Paul McGowan)

https://www.psaudio.com/

Aiwa?
Akai?

Here's a site that might jog some memories:

https://www.audiobrands.org/what-stereo-brands-were-used-in-the-80s/

Nakamichi CD-1?

Those are closer, but it quite right. Thanks for the suggestion.

Those curve top and bottom rather than at the corners. Thanks for checking.

Not Akai or Awia. I’ll check that list. Thanks