A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player?

I’m confused.  You ask for a CD player but then say you’ll be using a DAC. Which is it?  With a DAC I’d be looking at the Shanling ET3 that gets good reviews, but I’d look into reliability because I think I’ve seen it has had some problems. Whichever way you go, best of luck. 

soix: I feel a bit on the defence - sorry for your confusion but I was initially looking for reccomendations of a simple replacement CD player until someone suggested using just a transport, which is possible since I own a DAC.

For a couple of CDs a month though, the Shanlin is a tad pricey, certainly if reliability might be an issue. (Been there, done that - à la Linn!) I was thinking of something around $500 used. The Sony transport might be a good bet as it gives me a wide variety of media formats to explore. 

Thanks to everyone for taking my request to heart and sharing their personal favourites.

I have a couple of Musical Fidelity CD players that I bought inexpensively used and sound nice and detailed.The most I paid was $500.00 for a big beast , the A5, their cd player from some time ago. I am not using them now, but you could do worse. If my current option failed me, I'd switch back to the MF's without hesitation.

Best of luck out there. You have many options to choose from.

The Cambridge CXC Transport is often available direct from Cambridge as a refurb at a great price. The V1 and V2 of the CXC are sonically identical...for 1 or 2 CD's a month, an old DVD player as a transport sometimes can work great...

Sorry, I didn’t mean to be accusatory at all but was just confused but you cleared it up. My bad for not understanding.  I wish you the best of luck in finding a good transport.