Portable Cd players/headphone amps

[Jonas]

I mentioned this in one of the million Sessions threads but I figured it deserves its own thread.

I am looking for an efficient portable cd player and possibly a spectacular headphone amp. I already have a good set of headphones, but the only thing that I have to listen to CD's is my laptop, and the headphone jack on that is messed up...

Any suggestions? I'm assuming anything that plays a CD will do good, and then put in a pretty penny for the headphone amp...

Thanks

[stack-o-tracks]

Several years ago my stepdad bought a headphone amp from eBay that some guy had made himself in an Altoids tin. You could probably find something similar there now. I'd search for you but its a hassle doing anything on my phone.

[Jonas]

I'm thinking about picking up a Onkyo C-7030

[Jonas]

I still have no idea how I'm gonna listen to these cds...

[Jay]

Get an mp3 player instead. They're much easier than portable CD players. They're smaller than a portable CD player, and all you need is a headphone set that'll plug right into the mp3 player. Besides, if you have an mp3 player, you don't need to take cd's with you. You can just load all 5 discs into the player, and it'll stay there on the player until you plug it into the computer and physically delete everything.

[Jonas]

I suppose you're right Jay, I do have an mp3 player and I guess I can rip the cds at 320kbps, unless ipods can handle flac.

That being said, I was looking into a solid cdplayer for the full experience. I had my eye on the Onkyo C-7030, but now I'm not too sure.

[Jay]

Do you have FLAC files, as opposed to the regular CD's? I don't see why you'd have a problem with loading a regular CD into an mp3 player. Mine does it without a problem. But I have some boots in FLAC format that won't load.

I haven't owned an actual CD player for a few years now. When my last one died, I just hooked up my old Sony DVD player to the receiver, and it plays just like a normal CD player. I upgraded to a better DVD player, so I just figured I'd try to save money by seeing if my old DVD player would do the job.