Ya, there is one on Agon right now 7/10 condition. I saw that.
Hell, right now there are 605 players on there. Surely no need to buy new.
Nobody's happy I guess.
Marantz is one of the few now making CD/SACD only machines. All of Denon's line is shrunk and are all combo machines.
In my situation I did not want, music servers, Blue Ray, don't want DVD/A etc., didn't care about SACD since it is mostly dead and from when I had my XA777ES was not drastically better than good Red Book. So I went fishing again.
The Chinese are making some nice machines for the $$$. I had an EE Mini Max Cd too and it was very good.
EE being in a much different category as far as backup to most of the other Chinese manufacturers.
There are a lot, (too many) of choices out there.
I'm looking to get a certain feeling from digital that I had in the past and lost due to selling. Dumb! Can't leave well enough alone can we?
Doing this without replacing the same 2 pieces I sold. I was also looking at NOS DAC's to replace the Benchmark.
The Benchmark is excellent but was not giving me what I lost. I have to be emotionally moved when listening to digital
that goose bump factor, that PRAT, that can't sit still feeling.
Top contenders I was looking at:
Cary 308T
Arcam FMJ CD23T
Rega Saturn, or Apollo
Cambridge Audio Azur 840
Moon Audio Eclipse
Sony XA9000ES and XA7000ES
Raysonic 128
Marantz 8001
Jolida JD100
Lector 0.6
Audio Aero Prima
All these machines can be had between $950 and $1200 easily.
I would have had the Lector back in March but the guy never called me back for over a week.
I'll comment more later.
Den