Looking for a CD Player

@dogearedaudio 

Sounds as if your company uses CDs for software distribution or archiving?

Sequestered carbon means the carbon is locked up, not that it can be recycled!

You presented streaming as the eco-friendly alternative.  I am suggesting this is a furphy (Aussie slang for an erroneous or improbable story that is claimed to be factual).

At least, radio and TV are broadcast services (forgetting the internet versions!).  The last service to stay up and running in a bad bushfire is public radio, provided you have a battery receiver.  I was in Canberra when we lost several lives and 450 homes.  The firestorm was fierce enough to create its own thunderstorms.

The first thing occupying or revolutionary forces head for is the TV / radio station. The internet appears to be equally fragile.

I have no issue with the internet as a medium for distributing files but strictly speaking, that is not streaming.

I love SACD and have 3 players and several hundred SACDs.  I listen pretty exclusively to Classical and we have kept SACD alive.  However the OP didn’t mention his tastes and apparently owns no SACDs.  Just trying to keep it simple for him best serve his needs

$3000 is not going to get you into anything super amzing…I would get a Schiit audio transport for that and a Mytek Liberty II DAC.

Then I would be happy forever.

What the heck.... buy a used Oppo 105 on ebay for a little over $500.00. I know others above said don't buy used but for a budget of $3000.00 you could buy 6 of them if anything went wrong. I have several that I've had for years and all still going strong. They play regular cds and sacds so np.

@mahler123 

I share you tastes! Can I ask whether you play your SACDs in 2-channel or 5-channel surround?