Help picking a CD player

Fantastic unit.  Many great reviews:

https://www.audiogon.com/listings/lisbfhi9-onkyo-c-7030-cd-sacd-players

but it kept having issues.

Not unusual.

All the reason not to spend too much for a CDP.

and avoid the budget ones.

Seems to me, $1500 to $2000 is a good range. Those are the quality makes and are worth the repair cost. Under $1000, they become throwaways.

Audiolab makes a good transport. Rotel makes good sounding CD players

Stay away from Used.

I agree with the Rotel.  I purchased the RCD 1572 MKII new and it sounds excellent and has been very reliable over the years.  Highly recommended. 

One thing to consider is what CD drive is each of your chosen manufacturers using. They could all be using the same drive as there are not that many companies who make them now.

 For me Teac/Tascam/Esoteric (same company) make the best drives of all of them. Find one of those if you can in your budget. I know Teac put out a new lower priced CD player/transport recently with the VDRS drive in it, probably the best CD drive series made.  

@pippi 

Keeping with your list, the April Music unit was very well reviewed, and it is a top loader, meaning you won’t experience drawer mechanism issues since there’s no drawer.

Better a good vintage unit than a mediocre new player that will magically lose half of its value when you take it out of the box.