[sarora9]

If you have a nice quality CD player that would be good as transport I would be interested in buying it.
My current transport is a 9-year old Marantz 6000, and I am looking for something newer/better. Not interested in
 DVD players. Thanks.
(note: I need remote control too)

[JoshK]

Just a comment, not an offer.  You might find that the no DVD requirement is a bit restrictive, detrimentally.  I am not wild about using DVD players as CD transports but the truth is some of them make better than average transports.  The precisions and error detection required for reading DVDs is an order of magnitude better than CDs and this has a nice trickle down affect. 

I find that the newer universal players (SACD, DVD, DVD-Audio, etc, etc) are cumbersome, not in their ability to play well but that they are slow to read discs and respond to commands.  However, the slightly older plain DVD players (especially pioneer) were fast to respond and were great transports both ergonomically and functionally.

Many CD players are said to be just dumbed down dvd players anyway, or atleast their roms are DVD-roms. 

As you like, but I wouldn't rule them out if it were me.

[Housteau]

I have an original Musical Fidelity X-Ray that I am about to list on Audiogon.  This was my transport until I replaced it with a Proceed.  Let me know if you are interested.

[glaesemann]

I'm about to put my mint PS Audio Lambda 2 up for sale. Everything works perfectly and comes with original remote, box and manual.

$550 + shipping from 10803.

Tim

[harnser]

Wife is chasing me to lose some of my gear so I have 4 different players/transports that would bridge the gap between lowend good to high end very very good.
Base level - California Labs DX-1 - remarkable good for the price $220 ono
Next is a real classic and great quality but no remote - Pioneer PD-65 - $350 ono
British quality at very reasonable price with Myryad MC100 - $390 ono
Superb built and detail with the eSound CDE5 modified. I'll have to look up the detail on this one but it's around $850

Let me know if any of these are of  interest.
Paypal or moneyorder works.

[sarora9]

Thanks to everybody who replied (some by pm). It was instructive to google the various models offered. A few of the dedicated transports like PS Lambda and Theta were tempting but I have to pass because they appear to be more than 10 years old and may have reliability issues when they get so old.

In the meantime I discovered the transport mods at lampizator site http://www.lampizator.eu/LAMPIZATOR/TRANSPORT/FIKUS/Fikustransport.html
who got his new clock etc. from audio gd http://www.audio-gd.com/enweb/Pricelist.htm

I am planning to go the modding route for now; the audio gd guy (Kingwa) thinks that a modded Marantz 6000 should be an excellent
transport. I guess for $125 plus a few hours it is worth trying.