Seeking Budget CD Player Suggestions


I also posted this question in another forum. A friend of mine has an early 90s era Mac CD player which is on its last legs. Great player in its day, but he is on a budget (around $500) and needs to replace it, preferably new, dealer demo, open box, etc. Rotel CD-11 and Marantz CD-6007 have been suggested as top picks in that price range. Any other suggestions, ideas, reasoning for a particular model? If Rotel, would the Tribute or Mk. II edition be preferable? 

chrken

@bigkidz  Your mentioning that Nano jogged my memory, leading to this:

Was it anything like the Moondrop Discdream? 

All the best,
Nonoise

A friend who still loves listening to CDs highly recommends this $399 player from Cambridge Audio: https://www.crutchfield.com/p_779AXC35/Cambridge-Audio-AXC35.html?tp=197

He almost has me convinced to buy one, even though I don't need a CD player at the moment. And if I did, I'd probably get Yamaha's new multi-disc player. https://www.crutchfield.com/p_022CDC603B/Yamaha-CD-C603.html?tp=197