I came fairly late to the CD party, having stuck with vinyl for a long time, so have only had:
Marantz something-or-other hifi CD player (fairly cheap but served me well)
Technics no-frills portable discman thingy
Rega Planet (2000 model) - my current home player, toploading with awesome sound, although an annoyingly picky little sod when it comes to less than perfectly clean CDs. Might well change it soon.
The standard one in my Honda CRV.
I must admit I'm tempted to connect up some sort of computer to my hifi so that I can import all my CDs, stick them away in a box, and have jukebox style action. However I'm amazed there isn't yet a practical, good quality device for this from a hifi manufacturer. Maybe its time is just about to come. Struck me that what would be great would be to be able to upload everything uncompressed (ie - AIFF files, rather than MP3). That way not only do you have the best sound quality, but it means that you always have easy access to the raw original files in case you want to convert to a compressed format for your iPod or whatever in the future. Obviously if you import all your CDs at say 256kbps MP3 then you're kind of stuck with that bitrate and algorithm whatever you might want to use them for in future, as converting them would sound like arse. Obviously you could reimport again from CD but frankly that's far too much bother. And anyway, if a CD is 750MB(ish) then 200 of them would take up 150GB, and as far as I know it's pretty easy to get that much storage.
Marantz something-or-other hifi CD player (fairly cheap but served me well)
Technics no-frills portable discman thingy
Rega Planet (2000 model) - my current home player, toploading with awesome sound, although an annoyingly picky little sod when it comes to less than perfectly clean CDs. Might well change it soon.
The standard one in my Honda CRV.
I must admit I'm tempted to connect up some sort of computer to my hifi so that I can import all my CDs, stick them away in a box, and have jukebox style action. However I'm amazed there isn't yet a practical, good quality device for this from a hifi manufacturer. Maybe its time is just about to come. Struck me that what would be great would be to be able to upload everything uncompressed (ie - AIFF files, rather than MP3). That way not only do you have the best sound quality, but it means that you always have easy access to the raw original files in case you want to convert to a compressed format for your iPod or whatever in the future. Obviously if you import all your CDs at say 256kbps MP3 then you're kind of stuck with that bitrate and algorithm whatever you might want to use them for in future, as converting them would sound like arse. Obviously you could reimport again from CD but frankly that's far too much bother. And anyway, if a CD is 750MB(ish) then 200 of them would take up 150GB, and as far as I know it's pretty easy to get that much storage.