A small change to Barry’s system.
I have recently ‘retired’ my Studer-Revox C221 CD player:
and replaced it with a Mark Levinson 390S CD player/ processor (it can double up as a preamp):
Whilst I was more than satisfied with the C221, being a professional broadcast player it had a number of operational quirks, which were understandable for a machine to be used in a broadcast studio, but were ‘irksome’ when used in a domestic environment.
But the main reason for the change was twofold: it was an ambition of mine to add a Levinson CD player to my, largely, Levinson system; and being a broadcast standard player the C221 was extremely ‘fussy’ with the CDs played – music burnt onto a CD-R could become increasingly distorted as the disc played. Not all discs, but some.
Anyway the 390S plays anything that is thrown at it, and possibly sounds even better than the C221.