Buying a new CD player

[EJ3]

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[musicforcities]

Hello dear colleagues and friends!

It is time to change my old DVD player with a CD player, on which I am going to listen to music CD's Analog - RCA outputs!

The problem is that there are so many CD players nowaday, but I am really looking for the best ones which suites for mu budget.

So I will make price budget in 4 types:
Best player up to:
1. 500 USD
2. 1000 USD
3. 1500USD
4. 1500++++ USD

Meanwhile at this very moment I have my attention on theese models:

1.Onkyo C-733
2. Denon DCD 1700NE
3. Marantz CD50/60
4. Rotel 1572MkII
5. Audiolab 9000cdt
Any help is really really appreciated!

buying used can extend your budget

perhaps consider buying a ripper and putting your CDs on a local music server

Indeed. A $30 dvd reader/writer connected to a computer and a hard drive/NAS/music server and you are done. Save the money on the cd player , rip the files snd get a WiiM streamer instead with more function.

Or if you really want a player, pick up any decent used player with a digital out, and plug it into a DAC tested by Amir at your preferred performance vs price ratio. You can get a great balanced DAC far less than a new balanced CD player, or you can get a really cheap new or used cd player with decent digital out and just use it as a transport. Heck, you can use a PlayStation for that if you want or a new cheap bluray player with decent optical digital audio out. Or often barely used DVD players that are plentiful these days because they are obsolete but not yet ancient tech.

And yes there are many great and reasonably priced cd players out there new and used ones can be cheap as chips. The only issue with older used models is that laser may be getting weak or the mechanics of the tray etc may need a bit of attention. But often one can easily swap out the entire transport / laser head assembly since most brands hust dropped in ones made by Sony, Phillips, pioneer or techniques anyway. unless that assembly or just replacement laser pickup assembly is no available, which is starting to happen.

dennon makes very nicely performing and looking cd/multidisc players that are readily available brand new for $300. Spending more that $500 seems needless in terms of performance unless you want some specific interface look, feature, etc.

 

[musicforcities]

For your father, you should still be able to find a new Denon DCD-900NE for about US$ 500.

This player is as good as it gets when reading CDs (FFT of a 1 kHz@0 dBFS tone taken at analogue output at 2.2 V RMS):

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Moreover, it has an USB port to read files on key (MP3, PCM up to 24bits/192ksps in FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC and DSD up to 128FS), which is convenient.

You can often find that or similar models for much less, I have seen as low as $350 for factory refurbished with the full warranty. You save a lot with a manufacturer sanctioned refurb seller (or often direct from the manufacturer) with very little risk of any issues versus a “brand new” one, and in any case will be warrantied. often refurbed units have even lower failure rates than new sealed units because if there was a problem, it has been fixed at the factory, usually by just swapping a whole board or transport assembly, etc and then individually tested again.