Looking for a CD Player

Stick with your CDs that you love is my opinion.  I've been down all the rabbit holes from tapes, vinyl and CD to streaming exclusively and I find that when streaming, I never get into an album, always jumping around from song to song and for me the sound of playing a CD via a transport into my DAC is much better than the same thing streamed though Roon or Spotify or Tidal.  Streaming definitely has a place for me but for me it killed the joy of owning music and getting into a whole album.  You can still buy almost everything that comes out on CD, everyone thinks it's dead  but there will always be a place for it.  Whoever said it's environmentally unfriendly LOL.  

My wife loves Pandora. Music she likes and with enough variety of artists/songs you never know what the next track will be. I look at it like listening to your own radio station.

With that said, something I was told years ago is "if you can't hear the difference then don;t waste your money". I too have hearing issues in my senior years and keep that in mind when looking for an equipment "upgrade". I purchased a used Marantz CD player for just a few hundie and could tell the difference between it and the Oppo I have for dvds but I doubt I could hear anything much better at a much higher price.

Good thing smerk's address is unknown to us, with a menu like that you would have a bunch of adiophiles banging on the front door!

+Marantz Ruby.  Easily the best bang for the buck!