Please help me figure out what I need to do this. My head spins with tech talk..

@abstract Please just be aware that Audiogon members include manufacturers and retail dealers who are free to post in threads without identifying themselves as such.  They are familiar to regular posters here.

You must have arrived at Sim Moon by some process of elimination.  They are a very good and reliable company, who will stand behind their products.  Another Canadian company with a similar reputation is Bryston, who also make a stand-alone single box CD player.  There are more still out there than you might imagine.  If you're only interested in Red Book CD, it eliminates one extra box and the vagaries of connecting the two boxes with a cable, at which point people will immediately tell you you need a better cable.

@abstract I wish I had had an opportunity to.  But Primare doesn't have a large dealer base, with nothing close at hand.  Also, their repair network seemed dependent on one individual.  Whereas I've had excellent support, above and beyond, for many years with Bryston.  I suspect the CD35 and the BCD-3 sound more alike than different.

And yes, I know what you mean.  It was those early DDD recordings done by Deutsche Gramophon of massed violins that sent me, ears bleeding, for a number of years into the arms of class A, single ended, triode tubes.  But not any more.