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Replacement of Cary CD player

Looking for some recommendations:
I am using tube CD player Cary CD 308T as a transport, which I own for the last 10 years and recently thinking about replacing it with dedicated CD transport. The Cary is 16-17 years old and transport can be up to 10 years old. 
I am now using Cary with Audiobyte Black Dragon DAC, Bryston  monos and with tube preamp, I love the resulting warm and very musical sound.
So if you guys replaced this Cary model with CD transport I would love to hear from you which one.
I tried Primare DD15 and NuPrime 8 Pro, both were not even close to old Cary. My budget is up to $1700USD for used transport.
rohlim

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rohlim OP
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Thanks georgehifi,
in your response you talked about different Cary player, my player is 308, tube version. This has only coax and toslink digital out.
This 308 plays much better with external DAC so my thinking is why to keep old CD player (I can still get decent money for it when sold) when I can get better transport (newer technology) to use with my DAC.
So only question would be which transport would be able to sound better than old tube Cary? I might end up keeping Cary as transport and play with different DACs.
I do not care about hi-res, streamers or servers. Good old CDs are for me, and rips.
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