CD player suggestions...


I'm in the market for a new CD player in the $600  - $800 range. Suggestions?

peterpetre

Just to play Devil's advocate and throw this out there...You might consider a Sony UBP-X800M2 Blu-ray Player for under $300 and use it's coaxial digital out to feed an external DAC. Many say since Oppo stopped making players, that these Sonys were among the "best" being made.  And I cannot confirm it, but one poster at Crutchfield at least claims it plays SACDs (but note that *probably* means connected to an AVR via HDMI, not through the coaxial digital output). 

Tweak1 you are right? Repair will be hard to find? Maybe Underwood  Wally can, though both units are in good shape.The price I got are so reasonable.

Audiolab 6000CDT Transport for $600 hands down an amazing performer, but as others have mentioned you need an external DAC. For me easily bested the Marantz CD6007 and Cambridge Audio CXC V2, outputting to a Denafrips Pontus II DAC

+ for Rotel, but the more upscale CD14MKII. I own two Rotel products and beyond the sound quality, they are built like tanks and they are reliable for many years.

See review at link