Marantz CD-3577 (circa 1990)
Not much is documented about the Marantz CD-3577 beyond its December 1990 Audio equipment profile. That review still gives a fair picture of the machine. It was a CD player built around the one-bit pulse-width modulation (PWM) D/A conversion approach then in vogue, with noise shaping to tame the higher residual noise that one-bit systems inherently carried.
The feature Audio singled out was "Compu Edit," which worked out how to arrange CD tracks to fit cassettes of any selected length. That was a practical tool in the pre-recordable-CD era. The display tracked programming, random play, auto spacing, Compu Edit, repeat, and output level via bar graph, along with a music calendar showing up to 20 tracks.
Manufacturer's specifications as printed in the Audio profile (December 1990, p.112):
- Frequency response: 20 Hz–20 kHz, ±0.5 dB
- THD: less than 0.005% at 1 kHz
- S/N: greater than 100 dB
- Dynamic range: greater than 96 dB
- Output: 2 V normal, variable; digital coaxial 0.5 V peak-to-peak
Price and dimensions did turn up in the period record. HiFI-Stereo (1990, p.108) gave a price of $1,990, dimensions of 4 x 644 x 1244 in, and a weight of 22 lb. Broader historical details remain undocumented. If you have a CD-3577 or a period brochure, the archive would like to hear about it.
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