Looking for CD player

marantz work great till the laser quits, which happens quite often even on their top players, then you request replacement parts there are none available -- one exception to the japanese quality truism - so beware...

older sony players es are excellent, just stay away from the 5 cd carousel ones where the mechanism can break then it is brick

older cambridges, ayres and musical fidelity models have good reputations and good support if problems arise

Cambridge CXC w/ Denafrips Ares ll, Rega Apollo (current version)...these sound better to me than my Marantz CD6006 which is a great low price choice...

I had a NAD. It sounded OK but the auto turn off sucked. Sold it. 
Current seperates sound much much better.
Anyone who thinks all sound the same can't hear the difference. If you don't just buy a used DVD player for $30.

CDP or transport and add a DAC  bigger gains this way

in today’s age of streaming, i would have to agree with @grinnell

best get a decent cd transport (many out there) and dac with multiple inputs, so you can stream easily as well