I recently bought a new Denon DCD-800ne CD Player for $499 and love it. I had not bought a new CD player in 30 years (my Sony and even older Magnavox were mostly doing fine). However, nothing lasts forever, and I have a fairly large collection of about 1200 CDs I want to continue to play. Yeah, I do streaming too, but CDs still sound a touch better for whatever numerous reasons.
This model has sadly been discontinued by Denon, but I found it factory refurbished or perhaps simply NOS by them at an online vendor. It looks new to me.
It performs well with its internal DAC and processing. One feature I liked and wanted on it over its little brother, the DCD-600ne, was its USB input for playing files such as FLAC and DSD. Long term, I can use it as a decent transport if I ever buy a better DAC implemented better than its 32-bit/192kHz Burr-Brown PCM1795.
Note that it does play CDs gaplessly. Unfortunately, many late model CD players don’t, which is beyond dumb. So if gapless playback is important to you, ask before you buy. Good luck.
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First CD player help!
Hi everyone,
I am going to the darkside....
But only in my bedroom :)
I am a turntable enthusiast. It's been my only source for many years but I recently setup a turntable in my bedroom system and honestly do not enjoy having to get out of bed to flip the record and because I'm not actively listening I feel I'm not getting everything from the listening experience I would in front of my main.
I know all about streaming and love it but only for when I'm on the subway, my car, running around etc. When given all of the world's music my ADD head wants to move onto the next artist, album or song, before whats playing even finishes. I miss selecting a piece of physical media, putting it on and letting it play.
So that got me thinking about CDs.
I'm a young(ish) guy, 30 and got into music around the same time the first MP3 players hit the market so never really got into CDs. I recently purchased a guy's entire CD collection (400plus) and am now trying to figure out a decent CD player to add to my bedroom system and possibly down the road another for my main rig.
My bedroom setup is tube based. Rogue RP1 pre, Rogue ST-80 amp, Vandersteen 3Asig speakers. And one of those cheap Schiit Dacs.
I think I'd rather go CD player vs transport at this time. And would like to spend around $500 (either new or used works for me).
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Cheers,
Sammy