What CD player (if any) do you all use?
Do you also pair it with a DAC? If so, which?
influx of “i just use my computer’s disc drive” comments 
Guilty.
Would like a DN-300C Mk II or Marantz CD5005, am currently lacking space for a dedicated CD-Player.
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I use an NAD CD player as a transport, C546 BEE maybe (not sure model no!); connected to a Benchmark DAC1PRE instead of its internal DAC (which worked great, too). Equipment getting on in years.
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thats some great gear,
i would love something like that marantz also, having a hard time justifying cost however
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Might have been the 545BEE, will have to look when I get home, lol. I used to “have a guy” I relied on for recommendations. After I got the DAC1PRE, I asked about a “better” transport and he said if I really wanted I could get some TEAC rack mounted thing — unless it was TASCAM which I believe is the same company — but I could save $450 or so and enjoy what I had!
crazy how pricey they are for what you get imo. especially if you bypass the internal dac… oh well
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"i just use my computer’s disc drive”
Have no reason to get a dedicated cd player due to lack of space plus I rip everything since I spend most of my listening sessions at my computer. Keeping track of the individual cds would be too inconvenient for me.
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so u dont want a $600 oppo cd player that is “extremely robust and reliable, uses a read-ahead digital buffer to reduce disc-reading failures” and “incorporates the same slot-loading mechanism as Audiolab’s flagship CD player”…?
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Not when I can rip from a quality disc drive with a $39 ripping program https://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm that checks the checksums of every ripped track against a database of others who have ripped the same thing, and for obscure releases that aren’t in the database it rips multiple times, checks them, looks for errors, etc. I can tag those files and organize them anyway I see fit and use them with anything that can play them back.
Or I could just buy a robust, elegant, luxurious $600+ cd player and when my cds end up failing wonder why I never backed them up. 
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I hope you are running ECC RAM in your system too…
Hell, just buy two of each CD to make sure none of them have any defects on bit level!
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I only talked about those features in contrast to what the oppo can do. Not that I’m obsessive over these things.
I really love my oppo 203 but the rega saturn r is very good too.
Both often sound better than High Res Streaming…
@Adam Hello new here-- I have a Yamaha C-750 dvd-a/sacd/cd/dvd changer connected via RCA to new Schiit Ragnarok 2 amp and a Harman/Kardon fl8370 HDCD changer connected via digital optical to new Schiit Yggdrasil GS DAC then out to the amp-- I use the headphone in on the HK to listen to HDCD Dead recordings(can’t really tell difference in SQ when using the DAC and amp) and that Schiit amp is one SCHIITLOAD of a headphone amp paired all above to new Legacy Audio Studio HD monitors
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now THAT’S a setup!
@adam thank you-my CFO allowed that after she got 2 new bathrooms a new kitchen dining and livingroom-- as she put it “your last rodeo/system” the 2 changers tho are ancient but work perfectly but isn’t it just a PIA to find the discs load them then put them away when everything is streamed(for me with TIDAL/Qobuz through ROOM/Audirvana) but the discs sound better than anything streamed(almost)!
I still use a Sony 303ES CD player I bought in the early 90’s which still sounds great, plays as soon as the drawer closes, is pretty much silent and made to a quality rarely seen today. I also have a Technics Otava 550 lifestyle type system with the very good Technics C700 speakers in the family room and a couple of Sony UDP800 universal disc players which are handy for blu ray audio discs.