Good day gals and gents, I just stumbled upon an unusual portable cd player on Ebay. It is a Teac PD-P3. I've spent the last two hours going over old Teac catalogues and I've not been able to find anything about it. all that I could find is that it was sold in Australia. The one I mean is being sold with box and manual, and it is in relatively good condition. Asking price is 45€ plus shipping. Any hints towards what it is, or any technical specifications? Thanks in advance!
what a coincidence – I am reviving its older brother, TEAC PD-P7 right now! That was a pretty humble digital beginning for the company which nowadays makes the best-ever CD drives – in 1990 TEAC just re-branded Toshiba and Panasonic discmans. You were right in your other post, PD-P3 is an exact copy of Realistic CD-3250 which is a Toshiba XR-9421: Very solid Discman, built like a tank and very decent sounding. As you probably know, I sell revived Discmans on eBay, mostly 1st Gen collectible Discmans, but some ‘budget’ Discmans also worth the efforts of saving. D-33/34/36 and D-321 from Sony, DPC-782/981 from Kenwood, and CD-3250 play way above their ‘pay-grade’! Below is the description I post on eBay when listing CD-3250: Exact copy of Toshiba XR-4250 re-branded for Radio Shack as Realistic CD-3250. By 1991 Toshiba had finally stopped making Discmans 'their own way' and designed XR-4250 using Sony parts and Denon layout ideas. One notable exception: only thru-hole parts seen on the mainboard in the age when surface-mount resistors had become a standard. This is as 'old-school' as you could get in 1991...! Extra heavy plastic, beautiful matt-grey-metallic finish (thankfully, unlike Denon Discmans it is not rubberized gooey stuff), case is big enough to accept 6xAA batteries which last forever. Hardwired On/Off switch guarantees there is no 'standby' current draining batteries when Discman is turned Off. CD-3250 sounds as good as any 1st Gen Discman, and WAY better than anemic buffered 1-bit cheapness which came a year later. NJM3415 headphone amp outputs 20mW into 32Ohm and drives Sennheiser HD600 without any troubles. KSS-220A laser is one of Sony's best, although not designed to do so CD-3250 plays CD-R discs without any glitches Apart from the usual mishap of a damaged CD puck, this model has a nasty habit of being over-susceptible to taps/bumps/vibration. LMK if yours is one of these, it takes exactly two minutes to fix
Good morning sir! This is awesome news! I pulled the trigger on the player yesterday, mainly out of curiosity since I had no clue what it was. Only then I thought about doing a reverse image search, and so I came to the Realistic cd 3250 and to your post. The seller sent me a couple of pictures with the specs of the player, but they seem to mismatch what you say about the Realistic. But once the player arrives I'll take a listen and check if the paper specs are really worth discussing. I'll be shipped on monday, so I have a few long waiting days before me.
