Philips

Explore Philips vintage audio equipment in the Vintage Technology Archive.

Models

Cassette Deck

EL-7500 — Philips EL-7500 build-it-yourself moving-coil microphone kit, £7 7s, debuted at the 1966 Audio Fair with selectable 200/500-ohm and high impedance.

Cassette Decks

DCC-900 — Philips DCC-900: 1992 flagship Digital Compact Cassette deck. Period reviews cover CD Sync, full analog/digital I/O, 17-inch chassis.

Cd Players

CD-880 (c. 1988–1989) — Philips CD-880 (c. 1988–89) — Belgian-built CD player with TDA1541A DAC and cast aluminum chassis; contested CDM transport, thin documentation, loyal owners.
CD-960 — Philips CD-960 late-1980s flagship CD player: 100 dB S/N, 4.4 lb die-cast chassis, aluminum transport. Period record is largely advertising.
DAC-960 (1987–1989) — Philips DAC-960 (1987–1989) D/A converter — single TDA-1541A, 4x oversampling, triple transformers, balanced XLR out, doubles as preamp. $729 in 1990.
LHH-500 — Philips LHH-500 Reference Series CD player (c. 1990–1992): Bitstream 1-bit PDM conversion, balanced XLR outputs, period ads and Audio profile.

Unknown

CD R-870 — Philips CD R-870: a late-1990s CD recorder that writes CD-R/CD-RW, converts 48kHz to 44.1kHz, and impressed Audio magazine. Little else is documented.
EL 3312 — Philips EL 3312 stereo cassette deck (c.1966-69) — adjacent-track stereo, 60Hz-6kHz, 40dB S/N, 48gns new. The deck that broke the cassette tracking convention.
EL-3400 — Philips EL-3400 (c. 1965–66): the helical-scan video recorder that broke the £1,000 barrier, with a thumb-swappable rotating head.
EL-3527 — Little is documented about the Philips EL-3527. The surviving record is a short trail of period advertising and classified ads from 1960 — enough to place.
FC-60 — Philips FC-60 cassette deck — little documented beyond a 1990 Hirsch-Houck test report: three-head design, dynamic bias, and measured S/N and flutter findings.

Other Models

CDV-487 — Philips CDV-487 CD Video combi player, $949 list, TDA1541A S1 DAC, reviewed by HiFi-Stereo Dec 1989 as a peer of Pioneer and Yamaha combis.
CDV-488 — Philips CDV-488 CD-Video player: six optical disc formats, TDA-1541-A S1 DAC, 420+ lines resolution, $1,300 new.
DVD-855AT — Philips DVD-855AT (1999): $599 flagship DVD player with 10-bit video DACs, 5.1 Dolby Digital decoding, and 96-kHz/24-bit audio — but no CD-R playback.
DVX-8000 — Philips DVX-8000 (1997): $5,000 convergence box with Dolby Digital, Pentium MMX PC, and a front-projector line doubler the press called an absolute steal.
FR-920 — Philips FR-920 — early-90s A/V receiver, bottom of the FR-930/FR-940 line, ~$200 used in mid-90s classifieds. Measured by Audio magazine.
FR-940 — Philips FR-940: early-'90s Dolby Pro Logic AV receiver, 75W x 3, the affordable middle of Philips' FR surround lineup.
IS-5021 — Philips IS-5021 Sound Enhancer — tabletop 20-bit A/D-D/A converter and sample-rate converter, $1,500, the consumer sibling of the IS-5022.
L-300 — Philips L-300 — no verified product identity exists; L300-inch appears only as a component designator in Crown converter service manuals.
LHH1000 — Philips LHH1000 two-box CD player, 1989–90, $4,000, CDM-1 transport, TDA-1541A-S1 DAC, 101 dB S/N.
PM-5134 — Philips PM-5134 function generator, 1mHz–20MHz, 3.5-digit LED display, AM/FM, sweep — a lab-grade bench signal source with documented 5V supply failures.
RH-532 — Philips RH-532 (1975): a 26-lb powered bookshelf speaker with motional feedback, 60W of onboard amplification, and bass that defies its size.