A Low Cost Pleasant Sounding Used CD Player?


My ancient Linn Majik CD player has recently died. I only play a CD maybe once or twice a month, though I do have hundreds of them.

Any recommendations for an inexpensive good sounding replacement player? Thank you in advance...

 

tsampa

My goodness - what a wonderful outpouring of suggestions, experience and wisdom! Many thanks to everyone who has responded. 

I have a few requests out on Hifi Shark, so will wait patiently until something of appeal turns up. I'll let you know!

Thank you again - to all!

 

For anybody who might be interested: I went with a Shanling ET-3 transport. My goodness, what a revelation! I'm running it through a Simaudio Moon 390 DAC/streamer and it far outstrips the SQ of Qobuz streaming. (Which had been my highest fidelity audio source before.)

Never too old to learn a new trick...

 

I don't think they've been mentioned but California Audio Labs made a number of nice CD Players.

Good choice with the Shanling ET3. That's a nice unit which should give many years of trouble free music enjoyment. I love classic disc spinners as much as the next audiophile but the reliability aspect is nowhere near that of a new device like your Shanling. Plus that unit is just a neat and fun little device. 

v-fi: Yes, I quickly fell in love with the Shanling, specially with extra hi-rez CDs.