I remember the moment well. I was working in a wholesale/retail record store, which had a separate classical store. If you were reading the audio magazines at the time, you already knew that something big was coming - the CD. Since the classical world was really into clean audio, this new form of technology was being promoted to benefit classical music fans in a big way. This classical music store put its first CD player on display, and urged and encouraged classical music customers to audition it with their small selection of classical CD’s. The CD player was the Philips CD100, and it was the first CD player I ever heard, however, the first CD I listened to on the CD player was Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark. The minute I heard the audio of this CD through headphones, I knew this was a monumental step in audio. To me, the audio was nothing but mind-blowing.
To this day, I am still a fan of CD’s, and don’t mind saying that I play them regularly. It is with my CD players that I discovered how big of a difference different RCA interconnects can make.