CD Player Recommendations…

@noske  - Just curious, do you have the original Rega Saturn, or the later Saturn-R? Mine is the later.

@audioguy85

+1on the HDCD-1. Built like a tank, smooth as silk drawer. It's my back up

I just bought a used Rage Apollo (original version) at $200. Good SQ. I still have a lot CDs so I guess I still need a spinner.

@reubent I have the original Saturn. After more than a decade, recently it has started skipping on the first track of a CD. I have read this is nothing serious, just needs perhaps some maintenance on the mechanism. Early models had some soldering issues which were promptly addressed by Rega. If this, nothing that a competent technician can’t easily fix.

My amp is a Sansui 555A. Recently totally refurbished according to the Leestereo design specs at audiokarma. 

Divine. Sonic beauty.

I can see some better specs and other things with the newer R model, and that is tremendous. I can’t really comment on the newer models not having heard them.

@dabel  Yes, I wasn’t meaning to comment on Yamaha as such. I use a Yamaha tuner every day, the t-85, made around 1986. Its splendid.

Probably needs the lid lifted for a look at the caps etc, and some other stuff that tuners need after all this time - alignment? That’s probably something that can be only be done by a specialist techy. I digress...