First cd purchase

The Stranglers - "Aural Sculpture" and "Dreamtime"

I bought Steely Dans Decade (greatest hits) and a Bryan Adams cd with a Yamaha CDP at Gems Sound in NYC. Brought it home and it sounded awful. I ended up returning it and trading it for a Thorens turntable with a dynavector MC cartridge. A few weeks later I was at sam goodys and they had a philips made in holland cd player that sounded decent playing in the store. I bought that one for around $99 if I remember correctly to play the 10 cd's I bought in the 2 weeks I had the yamaha.

It was 1985 and I brought home "Brothers In Arms" - Dire Straits. I remember my jaw hitting the floor as it spun in my new Technics CDP.

1983 - A Japanese CD (Denon) called "The Four Seasons in Resonance", with Japanese liner notes. It contained 12 short pieces, one for each month, realized by a Japanese percussion ensemble. It's one of the few CDs in my collection recorded with pre-emphasis and indexing. It had four tracks, one for each season. The months were indexed.

It still plays fine 24 years later and actually sounds pretty good on modern gear.

Funny many of my old cds sound much better than the day I bought them. I aslo remmember the dire predections that years after the cd would discolor and its bits of info would somehow disentergrate. I guess the proff is in the pudding predections like most never happen.