after 30 years of searching, I finally have this thing! a Philips cd 100 from the early dutch/Belgian release in 1982 there are tons of them out there but most are of the Japanese/American release of 1983 I also set my self a max of $200 and most go for crazy amounts but a long wait has paid off. there's an even rarer Japanese version by sony which was only sold locally in japan in 1982/3 nearly identical to this one but black, of course, I need that one too for my phonographical collection I hope it does not take another 30 years!
This is the first CD player that went on sale in Europe I believe in March 1983. The Sony CDP-101 is the first ever though, released in Japan in October 1982.
Hi Simon interesting as always. Nice to see you getting some time off in the workshop hope you have some bottles of speckled hen on hand. Regards Chris. Nice ESR meter may have to get one of those.
wow, havent seen one of those since seeing one in a department store as a kid! IIRC it was playing Ben E King's "Stand By Me" and I was stunned by the difference in quality
Oooh that's an interesting machine, in good condition too. CD's they'll never last, we said in 1983. I hope those were audio grade smoothing capacitors you fitted... :) I've got a tray belt to replace on a Pioneer XC-L77 at some point. I assume it's that, keep pressing the 'Open' button and it randomly opens.
cool I have a Boothroyd Stuart meridian which is similar it was actually my first CD player the caps will be well toasted as it was powered up in standby and got pretty warm !
Were there any other electrolytic caps in there which could of been replaced? Or did you only do the power supply section? I would be doing a full recap so it doesn’t have to be touched for another 15 years.
@@CRC2209 no, all the small capacitors all over the board are poor quality and some of them in the negative supply rail generator, are under-voltage and need replacing.
@@davidhunt240 I have a gold marantz 63 same system as the phillips I am sending it off for repair it powers up and spins but there is no audio and it doesn't count tracks. I don't think the laser is working. Its a really clean unmolested unit so I want to get it repaired to last, What do you suggest I get the tech to test and to replace.
My Dad had one of these from new back in 83..It lasted about 20 years before the mech finally died. He's still got it somewhere..It would be interesting to see if it could be resurrected.
philips did make the solid aluminum capacitors 'SAL' , which meridian used in MCD version to decouple in a few places. sadly philips nor vishay make those anymore
Another one saved from the landfill, shame on Philips though for not putting back the screws in the heatsink. I presume you did put some fitting ones in?
I just went through a dead CD-100 and all the small barrel capacitors were 1/3 of their nominal capacitance and the ESR was about 10x what I put in to replace them. The large capacitors were within spec. If you have spindle run up problems, replace the bipolar capacitor on the spindle drive and it will spin up and stop as new. I put some thermal grease on the heatsink, this works well, I've worked the mechanism from start to finish for five minutes just programmed in the last track of a disc and back to the first and keep pressing play. The regulators are much cooler now 👍
CD-Rs didn't exist as a consumer item when this CD player was made. Later machines refused to play CD-Rs and computer CD-RW and people had to buy special audio recordable discs on the insistence of the record companies. I have all three of the first generation of players, Phillips CD100, Sony CDP-101 and the Hitachi DA-1000R. They all play CD-Rs 😊
after 30 years of searching, I finally have this thing! a Philips cd 100 from the early dutch/Belgian release in 1982 there are tons of them out there but most are of the Japanese/American release of 1983 I also set my self a max of $200 and most go for crazy amounts but a long wait has paid off.
there's an even rarer Japanese version by sony which was only sold locally in japan in 1982/3 nearly identical to this one but black, of course, I need that one too for my phonographical collection I hope it does not take another 30 years!
Good job Simon, thanks for taking us along on the repair ride!
This is the first CD player that went on sale in Europe I believe in March 1983. The Sony CDP-101 is the first ever though, released in Japan in October 1982.
Nice job with the repair. It plays and sounds terrific. CD players of today sure aren't made this well, this one is a keeper.
+TheRadiogeek This was the first Philips deck to be sold in the UK. It seems to souls better than when I last listened to it.
Nice old cd-player and nice repair.
Nice job, you should consider doing a full recap of the machine, since those old philips capacitors are well known to fail as the ones on the psu.
Hi Simon interesting as always. Nice to see you getting some time off in the workshop hope you have some bottles of speckled hen on hand. Regards Chris. Nice ESR meter may have to get one of those.
nice cd player from Philips the first cd player from Philips i think !!
wow, havent seen one of those since seeing one in a department store as a kid! IIRC it was playing Ben E King's "Stand By Me" and I was stunned by the difference in quality
Oooh that's an interesting machine, in good condition too. CD's they'll never last, we said in 1983. I hope those were audio grade smoothing capacitors you fitted... :) I've got a tray belt to replace on a Pioneer XC-L77 at some point. I assume it's that, keep pressing the 'Open' button and it randomly opens.
cool I have a Boothroyd Stuart meridian which is similar it was actually my first CD player the caps will be well toasted as it was powered up in standby and got pretty warm !
@@SoddingaboutSi thanks still cant believe how old it is !
i have the same one working
whats a reasonable price to sell it?
Were there any other electrolytic caps in there which could of been replaced? Or did you only do the power supply section? I would be doing a full recap so it doesn’t have to be touched for another 15 years.
No need to change all the caps. Only psu as it runs hot and the electrolytics near the voltage regulators get fried.
@@CRC2209 no, all the small capacitors all over the board are poor quality and some of them in the negative supply rail generator, are under-voltage and need replacing.
@@davidhunt240 I have a gold marantz 63 same system as the phillips I am sending it off for repair it powers up and spins but there is no audio and it doesn't count tracks. I don't think the laser is working. Its a really clean unmolested unit so I want to get it repaired to last, What do you suggest I get the tech to test and to replace.
My Dad had one of these from new back in 83..It lasted about 20 years before the mech finally died. He's still got it somewhere..It would be interesting to see if it could be resurrected.
+simon lloyd you never know. Worth a try
check the axial caps on the motor PSU board, the ones on the coil, too...
Hi Raj, yes it really needs a full recap after 35 years. These Philips caps aren't great over time either.
philips did make the solid aluminum capacitors 'SAL' , which meridian used in MCD version to decouple in a few places. sadly philips nor vishay make those anymore
Another one saved from the landfill, shame on Philips though for not putting back the screws in the heatsink. I presume you did put some fitting ones in?
+MrDubje Yes replaced with good quality rubicons. Should last another 30 years or so.
I just went through a dead CD-100 and all the small barrel capacitors were 1/3 of their nominal capacitance and the ESR was about 10x what I put in to replace them. The large capacitors were within spec. If you have spindle run up problems, replace the bipolar capacitor on the spindle drive and it will spin up and stop as new. I put some thermal grease on the heatsink, this works well, I've worked the mechanism from start to finish for five minutes just programmed in the last track of a disc and back to the first and keep pressing play. The regulators are much cooler now 👍
I was surprised it played a cd-r!
Andrew Littleboy yes so was I. I tried my Elo cd and it refused. Seemed to work correctly once the ipa evaporated.
CD-Rs didn't exist as a consumer item when this CD player was made. Later machines refused to play CD-Rs and computer CD-RW and people had to buy special audio recordable discs on the insistence of the record companies. I have all three of the first generation of players, Phillips CD100, Sony CDP-101 and the Hitachi DA-1000R. They all play CD-Rs 😊