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inexpensive cd player as gift

Anyone have experience with the lower end players. My brother is a vinyl guy but has been talking about a cd player to play his girlfriend's disks, etc.

On a beer budget I have found:

OPPO DV-970HD
Samsung HD-850
Onix Audio XCD 88
Denon 2910
Toshiba SD-4960
Marantz CD5001

All are amazingly inexpensive. Anyone have any experience positive or negative with any of them?
stearnsn
speakez
8 posts
 
I have two different Toshiba models that I like. He could always add an outboard DAC later.
flye
39 posts
 
Get the oppo! Best Bang for the buck and it also plays hdcd on top of everything else.
plutos
224 posts
 
From these the Denon must be superior in every way. I have owned Denon DVD 2800mk2 and it was quite clean sounding. The picture with progressive scan is wery good also. If you are buying new the denon is not wery inexpensive.
stearnsn OP
89 posts
 
I should probably add that he is pretty zealous about keeping music and tv seperate so the video part of the equation is not really an issue.
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