DOES IT WORK?? Vintage HIFI CD Player Philips CD960 ep 2 

In 1987 I lived in the home town of Philips and I knew many people who worked for Philips including my dad. Thanks to him, I could go to the employees store and use some money saved from my first job to buy the top-of-the-line Philips stereo system (which as it turns out was built by Marantz). In 1988 I wanted to add a CD player and in that time the CD960 was the top-of-the-line CD player according to the Philips catalog. But it cost almost twice as much as the CD-473 second-in-line and it sounded the same and had pretty much the same features. So I got the CD473 (made in Belgium) and didn't regret it. But I also wondered what made the CD960 (made by Marantz - see the MZ serial number label; yours is from 1987 by the way) so much more expensive. Thanks for posting the video that shows that it's obviously very different. They used the same chipset and the same CD drive (probably CDM-4) as other Philips CD players but that "linear skating" drawer and the Japanese electronics make it look totally different from the CD473. I hope you can get the drawer repaired and that it will give you many years of listening pleasure.

I really like that a younger person have so much fun and joy with an old Philips/Marantz cd player. I'm an old dutch vintage Philips audio lover, still using my Fa890, Cd850 and Fb821. Over 30 years old but with a little love playing like new. Please restore this nice little unit and enjoy it's nice sound.

I really like the style of that player. Good score

You’ve done your research. A very good sounding player

Good find ! Hopefully it works. Philips built some good CD players. Back then

Transport CDM 1 D/A TDA 1541A single crown !💕

I harbor some skepticism about the 90's players being better blanket statement in the comments. Manufacturers were largely racing to do more with less by that decade. I spent about the same for a working Philips CD-60, fairly recently, as I really wanted a Belgium made swing arm transport (this is purely from a romantic standpoint, for the love of interesting/historic machines) That said, the 1541A DAC sounds great to my ears... as it does connected to my AD1955 based Emotiva preamp's dac. I honestly can't discern the difference between them, and that's with pretty revealing Magnepan MG-IIIa speakers. I can also tell you that this thing reads the table of contents and starts playing WAY faster than anything modern that I've come across. That thing's a keeper, especially with that metal CDM-1, the lay people popping in don't know what they're talking about haha. Enjoy man!

im sure this player was allso badged up for other brands in late 80s early 90s ?

2:06 Nothing basic about it; it has everything you need. Try find a current CD player that offers index skipping...

Theres no way a 14bit cd player will sound better than a modern one

Stop sing and repair only

Stop to talk about CDs in social media, you only helps to increase the price, so we CD real collectors need to pay more. Don't be that hipster! Also there's a new good modern CD players better than that one.