A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player?

tsampa

Audiolab 6000CDT is a really good CD transport, as long as you have a DAC.....$599 on Amazon right now brand new

Excuse me, that should be $500 instead of $600

I hate say it, but at a recent CD player shootout, the cheap $69 unit competed with. The more expensive units. YMMV

I like the Rega CD Players. They're top loading, so you could use a Herbies CD mat with it.

I have been able to listen to a few CD's of the same models, produced in Japan and Sold as a Japanese Brand CDP or as a British Brand Sold under the guise the Product is produced in the UK?

Where the demo's of these CDP's has been of interest, is I have heard them A/B Compared as a OEM Model and Modified Model.

I can only state, that a Modified Model has been a standout for the improvements that have been created, a particular Sony Modified CDP was the go to CDP on many a listening session when at the home of the individual doing modifications.

At a later date, a Standalone Bespoke Built Valve DAC was used with the OEM Sony CDP and compared to the same Model undergone modifications. The situation of old immediately changed the OEM Sony through the DAC outshone the other CDP with immediacy. The modifier was quite shocked , but quite pleased to have learned a very easy solution to advance in performance quality an Olden Era CDP.