While CD players are nothing new today, they were the height of high-tech in the early 1980s. [w1ngsfly] shows us the inside of a Phase Linear 9500 player from 1983. Not only does it have many components, but it is also mechanically unusual.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/04/18/early-cd-player-teardown/