My CD-player stopped working. Does it make sense to invest in a new CD-transport?

I prefer to buy used CD players with digital outputs and use them as transports. I am currently using a decent circa 2000 Rotel CD player through my DAC. Solid build and good quality transport. It's onboard DAC sounds a little crude by today's standards.

Check out the Shanling Onix Zenith SACD transport. It's $2,400. Generally very positive reviews. The transport mechanism I'm not sure about, but it is a top-loader. Has i2s output as well as the more common digital interfaces, like Coax, etc. I'm probably going to buy it.

i also have an (embarrasingly) huge collection of cds, many of which i'm sentimentally attached to and couldn't bear parting with, so whether or not they sound better than the same material on streaming is somewhat irrelevant. for that reason, i'd always have a cd player around.  something like rotel or onkyo would do the job, but i've always liked the older universal disc players (pioneer elite, sony es, etc.) which are typically overbuilt to hell, do sacd and are really cheap used. alternatively, something like the oppo bdp95 is a very good sounding player.

Op if you have sacd collections, sacd player is an obvious choice. I will choose a company who has good tech support for sacd player. Advance Paris cdp is a very good cdp. It won’t play sacd.

Loomisjohnson I will advise buying new when it comes to buying cdp, sacd player.