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Should I still buy a CD player? Suggest one?

I just read that Best Buy is discontinuing CDs. This seems like a bad omen for CDs in general. I had a system I liked and lost most of it in a fire this summer. Insurance will buy me a replacement, but is it unwise to buy a CD player now? What are high end people doing now for source?

And, my players was a Creek CD-43, CD-53, bought in about 2002. What would be an equivalent quality now? Insurance doesn't care that they are more expensive now, they just want an equal replacement. If I buy a player, which is the most popular good CD player now? It's important that is it a popular one, because I don't want to get saddled with something hard to sell since things are in flux.

Thanks.


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caljay1994
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I just started listening to vinyl about a year ago after finding my old vinyl at my moms house. I was torn about a CD player as I had a decent collection. Was going to sell them and just get a node 2i streamer. Ended up getting entry level NAD player which has it’s own DAC. I did also recently get the Node as well. Not ready to give up on CDs just yet. 
jl35
3,976 posts
 
CD sounds great on the newer players and DACs, and CD's are very available online and prices often quite low...
jl35
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there are also some nice machines that do both streaming and play CD...
jsal3689
80 posts
 
If you have a DAC you can get a CD transport. I got one on a budget that sounds great. Cambridge CXC CD transport. Sounds much better than anything you can get at Best Buy and it's only $600.00 (400.00 on sale). They say CD's are on the way out but they said that about vinyl. There are so many CD's out there, there will always be a market for a player. The Cambridge transport is a flat out steal. 
jl35
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The CXC v1 is now $300. The v2 is only cosmetic differences. Agree it’s a great machine 
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