Marantz CD85 [sold]

by flyfly Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:23 pm

This CD85 [top one] is a well construction CD player,that reflect in its weight and a much bigger transformer than its brother CD94.

inho,constuction and cuircutry wise ,it is much better despite comes with a high end Single Crown 1541S1.Some has commented it was identical to CD880,some say the CD85 is better than the CD94 sonically and it only slighly better off by a much more expensive CD94MKII.

CD85

Much, much better than the other two players, the CD85 reminds me of the fabulous CD94MKII with good speed and drive, fine dynamics as well as super-refined and utterly smooth and fluid treble. Bass is full and fast enough but can be a little soft. The CD85 easily beats the CD80 with the latter sounding confused and blurry in comparison. Also, the CD85 sounds much more authentic and real, showing the CD80 to have a somewhat synthetic signature.

http://www.hifi-advice.com/Philips-CD-player-review.html

I am letting go as my listening taste are more towards Vocal,and therefore i prefer CD player of earlier day[TDA 1540p has more richness in midband].

asking RM$1600

note: i can tweak it to sound much better than stock Marantz CD94 with slightly more fees. i leave that option to you to decide.pls pm if you keen.
it comes with a marantz remote.