Personal CD player evolution

1) Sony boombox with a CD player (1989)
2) Sony Discman (1993) (this led to a solid move from cassette to CD's)
3) JVC CD player (part of my first "component" system with JVC receiver and PSB Alpha's) (1994)

...then comes University graduation, followed by full-time work and pay, which led to the next stream...

4) Marantz CC-3000 5-disc changer (2000)
5) Bel Canto DAC1 added (2002) (still using Marantz changer)
6) Meridian 506.24 (2004)
7) Ayre CX-7e (2008)

...and that should be it for quite a while now...I don't change components very often relative to most on these boards, but when I do, it's generally for clear improvements. The smallest improvement was Marantz/Bel Canto to Meridian - that was more of a sideways step compared to the rest, which were all easily audible changes. But the Bel Canto to Meridian change was caused by necessity - had to move overseas and didn't wanna bring the stereo equipment with me due to transport issues.

Marantz CD-63 Special Edition
Linn Unidisk SC
Linn Unidisk 1.1
Esoteric DV-50

Denon dcd-500
Adcom gcd-600
NAD 522
Arcam 8SE
Philips 963SA
Philips SACD-1000
Sony SCD-333ES(stock then modded)
Sony SCD-9000ES
Marantz SA-11s2

Sony 101, first player imported to the U.S.

Sony 302 mkII

Sony 520ES

Audio Alchemy DDS

Sony X33ES

Pioneer PD 65

Sony DVP 9000ES SACD/DVD

Denon DCD 1500 II (the mid 80s type, I noticed there is a new DCD 1500 AE these days, makes it somewhat confusing)
Marantz CD 72 SE
Camtech "Laufwerk" + Camtech "Digital Analog Wandler"
Jadis JD3
Abbingdon Music Research CD-77

2nd system: Ayre CX-7