Reaton DCC135… They made some CD players under Philips license, Laserdisc players… But DCC???
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Prototype never went into production most likely.
I do not believe anyone would be interested in paying that rate.
Hilarious, a whopping €8250? Really?
Great find, and a DCC130 was used for building it. According to the listing it is a prototype.
Very cool device, a potential for the DCC Museum, but that will never happen at this rate.
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I’ve never heard of the “Raeton” brand before. An internet search for the brand only gives me pages about cars. If it’s a Russian brand, it’s weird because from the perspective of a reader who’s used to the Cyrillic alphabet, “Raeton” would look like gibberish. The Cyrillic letter Я Is pronounced like “ya” and the letter И is pronounced like the English “E” (Latin “i”). So a Russian person trying to pronounce the name would likely sound to an English listener like “Yayetoi” or something.
Without more info, I would speculate that the reason that it’s bigger than the original, is that it would allow them to use some cheaper non-SMD electronic parts e.g. from Russian factories.
It kind of reminds me of the Marantz PMD601 (a modified DCC170 with balanced audio connectors and a large battery space, for professional use) but it looks like the Raeton doesn’t provide any benefits to the owner, other than being available in a world where the Soviet Union was collapsing and there was nothing else available.
Somewhat interesting from an archeological point of view but not worth anything close to what they’re asking.
===Jac
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