No.
Definitely not.
Why buy a used CD player when you can buy feature festooned reliable latest technology from companies like Marantz, Sony and Arcam for an awful lot less than $2-3k?
Certainly not for sound quality either. CD players from the 80s can match recent designs, depending upon taste, but unless there’s some quaint anachronistic reason, why ever go there?
The only CD players I ever heard that stood out sonically (albeit marginally) were the Linn CD12 (scale), Rega Saturn (analogue) and the Cambridge CD4SE (vivid tones).
None of them are cheap enough or easy to get hold of to warrant my swapping them for my Marantz CD6000ki - which I think sounds more tonally balanced than any of them.
Definitely not.
Why buy a used CD player when you can buy feature festooned reliable latest technology from companies like Marantz, Sony and Arcam for an awful lot less than $2-3k?
Certainly not for sound quality either. CD players from the 80s can match recent designs, depending upon taste, but unless there’s some quaint anachronistic reason, why ever go there?
The only CD players I ever heard that stood out sonically (albeit marginally) were the Linn CD12 (scale), Rega Saturn (analogue) and the Cambridge CD4SE (vivid tones).
None of them are cheap enough or easy to get hold of to warrant my swapping them for my Marantz CD6000ki - which I think sounds more tonally balanced than any of them.