Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use?

phillyb,

Just listened to Sgt. Peppers 50th on vinyl. You were right. Will listen to the alternate takes when I get home from another follow up with the Surgeon.
Well worth having this 50th anniversary issue.
Your advice is solid.

Thanks
Norbert

I have an Oppo 103 but never use it for redbook. Only HT Video. I use to. But after much experimentation I discovered ripping CDs using db Poweramp to lossless FLAC. Then playing back the files using a PC running JRIver fed through USB to an outboard DAC made even a player as good as the OPPO sound bad. Even when I ran the Oppo through the same outboard DAC.

I'm in a dilemma. I have a lot of music on my PC (redbook and high-resoIution). I normally load an album by connecting to the PC using a VNC client on my phone. I have very few SACDs, but a lot of DSD files that I can play from my PC. If you had the money for either the Marantz SA-10 or the Aurender A10, which one would you buy? The Aurender definitely wins in convenience: I would only need to buy an iPad and then I could play everything using the Conductor app. On the other hand, I hear amazing things about the reproduction quality of the Marantz, and although I have already ripped all of my music onto my hard drive, the Marantz can also be used as a DAC via USB (but without a proper control app). The disc reader is nice and a lot of thought has gone into it, as far as I understood from the reviews, but I am afraid that the future will not in physical discs (especially since the Marantz cannot play multi-channel recordings).
Any opinions are welcome.

I never made the jump. But looking at options to play Redbook now, only because some of the records I'm chasing are beyond expensive- 3 and 4 figures. No legit vinyl reissue, or mediocre reissue. But older, some from the tape CDs legitimately released back in the day.
I'm considering a basic transport and looking at a cost effective ladder DAC, no oversampling, tube rectification is fine, no additional analog filtering. 
I'm not really interested in setting up a network, or streaming or DSD. Just the ability to access some relatively obscure recordings for which legit CDs were made, once upon a time. 
For me to set up a serious digital front end comparable to my vinyl front end would be very costly, and it seems favored DACs are changing rapidly. (I also have quite a collection of CDs that were acquired while I worked on the edge of the industry as a lawyer or bought them for use in a car or on a background system for dining/living area of various houses). So, I'm not starting from scratch on the "software" side. 

Cambridge CXC  w/Wyred4Sound DAC1v2 .