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Seeking Budget CD Player Suggestions

I also posted this question in another forum. A friend of mine has an early 90s era Mac CD player which is on its last legs. Great player in its day, but he is on a budget (around $500) and needs to replace it, preferably new, dealer demo, open box, etc. Rotel CD-11 and Marantz CD-6007 have been suggested as top picks in that price range. Any other suggestions, ideas, reasoning for a particular model? If Rotel, would the Tribute or Mk. II edition be preferable? 

chrken
troutstreamnm
45 posts
 

I own a Marantz CD6007 and it’s excellent and reasonably affordable new. I’m planning to upgrade shortly so it could be listed on Audiogon soon 🙂

vthokie83
853 posts
 

If money is the major concern. The Onkyo C-7030 is a really good entry level CD player for the $250 it costs. If he has a DAC, the Audiolab 6000CDT is an excellent entry level CD transport (no DAC)

chrken OP
11 posts
 

I want to thank everyone for your thoughtful recommendations. We'll probably do some serious evaluations this coming weekend and then decide which way to go.

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nonoise
10,838 posts
 

@bigkidz  Your mentioning that Nano jogged my memory, leading to this:

Was it anything like the Moondrop Discdream? 

All the best,
Nonoise

bigkidz
3,381 posts
 

@nonoise - never heard one but the Nano was the bomb!

 

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