Component(s) you would induct into a "Hi-Fi Hall of Fame"?

[BeeKay]

This wonderful gadget changed life for many

 

[restorer-john]

The Sony CDP-101 (Philips TDA1540 DAC 14 bit) was actually the first commercially available CD player in 1982. The Philips CD100 was shown publicly at the 1981 Berlin Audio Show but wasn't available for purchase until 1983. It was released for sale with the Phillips TDA1541 DAC 16 bit, but the earlier pre-production players still had the TDA1540 DAC.

For sure.


JSmith

Ah, no, you are massively mistaken in this entire post.

The Sony CDP-101 used the CX-20017, a 16 bit Sony D/A converter and was released in 1982. October 1982 in Japan. March 1, 1983 in the rest of the world.

The TDA-1541 was Philips desperate attempt to play catch up, nearly 2 years later, when everyone had moved on to Burr Brown PCM-56Ps.

I love it when people desperately try to rewrite the history of CD with their own stupid theories. Where did you get the crazy idea Sony used a TDA-1540 in the CDP-101? Seriously?

There you go, CDP-101. What's that D/A converter?

 

[restorer-john]

I would put the Yamaha DSP-1 up there.

Gotta agree with @SIY on the Sony TAN-88, I've pitched it before as an absolute game changer.

Absolutely the Sony CDP-101- there could be no argument from anyone.

The wretched little NAD-3020 gets in because it is the most successful amplifier ever.

The AR turntable, the Technics SL-1200 series and of course the Linn LP12, all totally different but iconic.

Yamaha NS-1000, NS-2000 and NS-10000 loudspeakers.

Infinity IRS-V speakers.

JBL L-300s.

Sony SS-G7 and SS-G9. SS-G333ES and SS-G777ES. Japanese loudspeakers that were truly out of this world.

 

[JSmith]

Where did you get the crazy idea Sony used a TDA-1540 in the CDP-101?

As simple as my memory on this appears to be incorrect, thought the first ones used the Philips DAC's... must have been thinking of the collaboration on CD itself.

Good to clear that up anyway I suppose... easy now, I 'aint crazy yet, I hope.


JSmith

 

[Blumlein 88]

I think we need some guiding criteria for what deserves this hall of fame status. Otherwise you end up with everything and the kitchen sink.

 

[Rednaxela]

A situation we had already reached before post #8.

 

[AnalogSteph]

The TDA-1541 was Philips desperate attempt to play catch up, nearly 2 years later, when everyone had moved on to Burr Brown PCM-56Ps.

Yeah, the first player to use a TDA1541 (along with the matching new SAA7220 digital filter) would have been the CD304 MkII. So not the CD100/300, not the CD101/104/202/303, not the CD304. About 1985. PCM54 days. (Which I suspect would have been pretty stiff competition.)

To be fair they did get about 16 bits worth of performance out of the TDA1540 with 4X OS plus noise shaping.

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[Waxx]

I would also include now obsolete but in their time top level speakers like the Altec Vott A7, Altec Model 19, Altec 620A, the JBL Paragon, The JBL L100 Century, Warfdale Linton, Dynaco A25, B&W 801, B&W DM-70, Klein & Hummel O98, ...

 

[GK.]

Dolby noise reduction.

 

[JeffS7444]

The AR turntable, the Technics SL-1200 series and of course the Linn LP12

Yes, yes and NO.

 

[Blumlein 88]

You guys are making the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame look okay.

No one has mentioned the Edison cylinder. Seems like an easy choice.

 

[JeffS7444]

I think we need some guiding criteria for what deserves this hall of fame status. Otherwise you end up with everything and the kitchen sink.

Agreed, a bunch of items are mentioned because ..? While I personally liked the looks of the Braun/ADS products, and owned 3x Linn LP12s, they didn't change the listening landscape on the scale commercial radio broadcasts, compact disc, Walkman or the MP3 codec,

 

[JSmith]

The "Ghetto Blaster"

Before the Walkman... radio headphones

JSmith

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

AR-1 speaker

 

[Waxx]

Also, the first affordable kit amplifier that you could build yourself: the infamous Williamson Amplifier from 1947. It was relative cheap to build and sounded better than most way more expensive amps of that time. it was the first amp with distortions of only 0.1%, and stayed the only one for quiet a while after it's release.

It was developped by David Theodore Nelson Williamson during WOII and published as free plan/open source in 1947. That guy worked for Marconi-Osram Valve company, a big tube maker from that time part of the British division of General Electric and used off course his own brand of tubes.

This was by far the best amp of the 1940's and 1950's and was only really beaten by the first good transistor amps on high fidelity. And it was relative cheap and accessible as many companies build it for you also. But the plans were free and the parts widely availeble. The picture is one of the commercial makes of the 1950's, that now sells for ridiculous prices btw...

 

[egellings]

I vote for the venerable Marantz 8B.

 

[mhardy6647]

AR-1 speaker

Fwiw, I went with the AR-3, only because, cool as the WE/Altec 755 driver is, it wasn't the ideal choice for a tweeter.

 

[ivayvr]

NAD 3020 and NAD D3020.

 

[Ken1951]

Sequerra Model 1, Marantz 10B, Magnepan MG-1, Advent 201 cassette deck, Tandberg TCD-300

 

[Mikig]

I would say: the tape recorder, the radio, the vinyl record, the reel, the cassette, the CD, streaming.
Everything else is technology that was invented or used to adapt to the formats that contain the message.
It is not second in importance, but without support it would not exist or would not be applied.
As for names of components, well I think there are many that have marked an era. I would say that they have already been widely cited in previous posts!