Philips CD 960

Data

General

• Manufacturer: Philips
• Model: CD 960
• Type: CD player
• Years of manufacture: 1987 - 1989
• Made in: Japan Marantz
• Color: Black
• Dimensions: 420 x 100 x 378 mm
• Weight: 10 kg
• Original price approx.: 2'000 DM / 1987

Technical data

• Sampling frequency: 44.1 kHz
• Quantization: 16 bit linear/channel
• Frequency range: 2 to 20 000 Hz
• Amplitude linearity: +/- 2° (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Phrase linearity: +/- 2% (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Dynamic range: 96 dB (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Signal-to-noise ratio: 101 dB (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Channel separation: 100 dB (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Distortion factor: 0.0015% (20 - 20 000 Hz)
• Coincidence fluctuations: Quartz Precision
• Digital to Analogue Conversion: 4x (176.4 kHz) Oversampling with "SAA7220p/A" Digital Filter and a "TDA1541" 16-bit D/A Converter
• CD drive: CDM 1
• Error correction system: Cross Intereaved Reed Solomon Code (CIRC)

Special Features

• Title program playback
• Random playback
• Repeat of a title or the whole CD
• FTS memory
• Automatic insertion of blanks
• Digital output optical and coaxial
• Cinch output gold-plated

Remarks

• Other models in the same series:
• Integrated amplifiers:
• Philips FA 960

• Tuners:
• Philips FT 980

• A/V receiver:
• Philips FR 980

• CD player:
• Philips CD 960

• D/A converter:
• Philips DAC 960

Pictures

• Image: Philips CD 960

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• Image: Philips CD 960

• Excerpt from US advertisement: Philips CD 960

Reviews

• The Philips CD-960 is largely identical in construction to the Marantz CD-94, CD-95, CD-99, CD-12, the Philips LHH-1000, the Micro Seiki CD-M2, CD-M100, CD-M2000X, and the Wadia WT-3200, and ran off the assembly lines of the Marantz manufacturing facilities in Japan along with them.

The CD-960 is the most expensive CD player ever sold by Philips. The massive chassis is made of die-cast zinc, the power supply is more likely to be found in a mid-range integrated amplifier today, and two icons tower above it all - the indestructible Philips CDM1 turntable, also made of die-cast zinc and with glass lenses by Rodenstock, and probably the most musical digital/analogue converter ever, the Philips TDA1541.

Links

• Link and pictures: http://www.dutchaudioclassics.nl/philips_cd960_cdplayer/