Looking for a CD Player

Check out the Teac 701t.  Music Direct has a good price on them now.  I have had one since August.   Nice machine.  

Unless you are using a separate dac, the cd player needs to have one built in.  

I have a Denon DCD-1700NE.  For $1500, it's a really nice player.  It has SACD, but you don't need to use it (if you don't own SACDs, you don't need the capability). 

You only need SACD Capability (super audio cd, read by a different laser) if you have or plan on buying SACD Discs. I had some and bought some more, but no longer, they aren't really worth it after the itch is scratched IMO. A standard CD, via great player, can sound terrific.

Lasers get old/weak relative to hours played, use caution buying used. And, they can go out of alignment, many used units play CD, but errors when trying to play the SACD version.

I went from a surprisingly great sounding Sony changer that died, CD only, to a Vintage Sony Single SACD/CD Player XA5400ES (learned about it here). I was playing almost all vinyl, until I got the xa5400es, now I am still re-discovering my many CDs, and buying used cds, used vinyl, trying not to buy anything and listen to what I inherited.

IF you do not need SACD, you might consider a CD Changer, I had two changers that sounded terrific, the Sony that died, and I kept an Onkyo Integra CDC-3.4 in one of my systems, they still sell it new, Crutchfield has good info about old stuff, Amazon has it, dual wolfson processors was why I tried it, found out how great is sounded compared to 9 others I tried (none high end expensive).

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-LESwRLiMqtt/p_164CDC34/Integra-CDC-3-4.html

My search's conclusion, it's a salad of ingredients, chosen processor(s), over-clocking, anti-jitter, proprietary filters, ... you hear and prefer ......, 

comments and help I got here

Sony xa5400es discussion here

note: they keep going up in price, I was shocked I had to pay $1,000 nearly 3 years ago

DSD Processor, not conversion to PCM

Better CD Sound, the search