I picked up a Cambridge Audio 651C recently. Tried it out next to the Marantz 6005 and it sounded a little clearer. Really glad I got it, sounds great and kicks the crap out of the elderly DVD player that I'd been using before.

tmidgett wrote: plumped for a Marantz CD6005.Congrats! It's fun to stop chasing and start listening.musicdirectI love that place.

Redline wrote:The Marantz CD6005 is a great player that also has the usb ports and stuff I would never use, and it's under 500 bucks.http://www.musicdirect.com/p-153492-mar ... layer.aspxStopped by musicdirect and plumped for a Marantz CD6005.Actually shocked at how much better it sounds than the NAD C 516BEE. Much better low end, clearer top end, just more fun to play music on it. Extra $200 well spent. NAD C 546BEE is a more direct competitor with the CD6005, but I think I'm done fishing.I have heard Cambridge Audio ones and recall liking the sound (thanks for the rec).I've hit the top of my price point, so I'll likely stop here.THANKS ALL

PS1, PS2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Sega Saturn, Sega Mega CD, even the PC Engine CD which was the very first system to use a CD drive - I have all these old consoles and the drive has not failed in any of them. I actually have backup machines in case they do fail, and they're all working too.The plastics and semiconductors are just fine, as indeed are the plastics and semiconductors in the machines fifteen years older still, although they obviously don't have CD drives (well, some plastics go yellow, but nothing has become brittle).Electrolytic capacitors and button batteries are some things that are commonly replaced while keeping old consoles alive. I thought it was the laser/read head or the motor which is the likely fail point in CD drives?I would say that the plastics and semiconductors in a 20 year old-ish PS1 are likely to be just fine if it hasn't been abused or stored somewhere with excessive moisture or extreme temperature changes (which chips really don't like). The motor and laser, who knows.

I'm looking to pick up a cheap CD player, one of those ones that can store 100+ cds. My shitty thrift store Sony five disk changer crapped out and I have hundreds of old CDs in a bunch of different cases... I'd like to load them all into something and map out the disk numbers. Any recommendations?

That's... quite expensive?

The Oppo UDP-203 kills. I already have a good cd player, but this thing rules for the price. Outstanding audio. The bad news is they're going out of business.DVD-Audio, SACD and CD4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Player Reference Quality Video with HDR & Dolby VisionLossless, High-Resolution AudioUHD, Blu-ray Audio, 3D, DVDPrice:$549

It must be tough being an audiophile. I always found ordinary CD players to do the job just fine. Like almost everybody else in the world, I have no interest in SACD, but with it being a failed format I can see why it would be expensive to repair.

Anthony Flack wrote:That's... quite expensive?Not really. I paid more to fix my other SACD player.The Oppo units do a lot of stuff too, which would usually spook me, but they do it all really well. It will be sad to see Oppo go...*sniff*Used Marantz 6005 and 6006 cd players are going for around 300 bucks. They will always be great.

Redline wrote:It must be tough being deaf...Sure, but Beethoven still did ok.