Sanyo CP-200 (1984)
Little is documented about the Sanyo CP-200 beyond its appearances in early-1984 audio magazines. What the record shows: it was a compact disc player with a 16-track programmable memory and a headphone jack. An October 1984 product brief in HI-Fi-Stereo-Buyers (Oct 1984, p.57) listed those features and gave a price that OCR renders as $549.95.
The same publication's March 1984 new-products section reported a signal-to-noise ratio of 90 dB, distortion of 0.003 per cent, and wow-and-flutter too low to measure. It also gave the CP-200's weight as 13 pounds and its width and height as 13¼ and 3⅛ inches, respectively; no depth was listed in the surviving snippet. High Fidelity included the CP-200 in its April 1984 New Equipment Reports (p.17), but the surviving text is fragmentary and yields no further specifics.
Beyond those period notes, almost nothing else is recorded: no production dates, no circuit details, and no owner-community lore have surfaced. For now, the CP-200 remains a credible but lightly documented early CD player from Sanyo.
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