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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.


river251
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I 2nd the recommendation by @soix for Zen mini MKIII with separate PSU.  It’s the best streamer / DAC / CD Ripper currently available around $2K. I would go with at least 2TB storage. 
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https://echohifi.com/details/14275/Arcam_DV27
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Prices have come down on the Cocktail Audio M45 as well. You could load it with 16 TB of Cd's, it's Roon ready and can read/unfold MQA as well.
river251 OP
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Thanks again guys. The Zen mini and the Cambridge will, if I understand correctly, require a DAC. Can anyone recommend some DACs? 

Thanks, spirifofradio, for the link, will look at it. Thanks badger_erich, I'll look at the Cocktail as well. Not sure what MQA is, will find out. Caljay, do you remember which NAD you have? NAD was respected back when I was checking stuff out, before I settled in with my system.

Can I only get the new Creeks from ebay? 

Thanks. I'll be talking to my claim guy in the morning to learn more about the process. 

Sounds like a lot of consensus on the Cambridge and Zen. Now to find a DAC. 

Jim


jl35
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New Creek CD players are widely available and supposedly quite good 
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