Best High End CD Player – Expert Recommendations

Designed for surround sound, this portable and powerful speaker not only has a great design but is user friendly, easy to set up and can fit the smallest of spaces. Alongside a large display with adjustable lights is its added ability to allow alarms!’

The Ruark R5 will give you options for a plethora of other services apart from merely being a CD player. It can be used over the internet, via bluetooth, on wifi, has a magnificent sound system too and checks pretty much every box you’d want your CD player to check!

We recently entered the world of the incredible McIntosh MCD85. A CD player with multiple digital inputs for external digital streamers. The MCD85 has an open chassis design and is a serious piece of audio hardware. McIntosh continues their line in distinctive looking retro-styled home stereo systems with the MCD85. The units can play SACDs and CDs as well as audio from homemade CDs DVD Data Discs and an assortment of file formats can be supported from these discs including FLAC, MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, ALAC, DSD, and WMA. To top things off, the McIntosh MCD85 can be used to stream digital music from a computer or other digital audio devices. This is one for the serious audio fans out there but also it comes with a serious price tag.

It has a quieter power supply and improved HDAM amplifier modules, helped along by a sprinkling of higher quality internal components, not least of which is the change of DAC chip to an AKM 4490. That chip allows the CD6007 to process high-resolution files through USB-A on front socket, supporting PCM music up to 24-bit/192kHz. I have always been a loyal fan of Marantz they’re built like a tank and the sound is always refined, clear, warm and alive. With detail, dynamics and a beautifully pristine sound, this is the best CD player available at anywhere close to this money.