DenonDCD-600NE Compact CD Player in a Vibration-Resistant Design | 2 Channels | Pure Direct Mode | Pair with PMA-600NE for Enhanced Sound Quality | Black

Midrange pricing but you get an excellent product. The sound to me is super. You also get a remote that works correctly right out of the box (of course you have place the batteries in first).

Best sound.

The unit arrived on time, well packaged and simple to set-up and use. The display is good for showing what track you are on. If you want to know how many tracks there are on the disk you have to insert the disk without first choosing a track (or pressing PLY, upon which the unit goes to track#1 and keep the number of tracks a secret...Yes, there are ways to deal with it but why do you have to? Maybe the idea is that the display is inherently harmful to the sound quality? That cannot be the answer - the unit has the option that turns off the display entirely so what is the problem of displaying all the information for those who suspect that this feature is not catering for a severe problem anyhow....As to the remote. Many have commented on this silly device. It is almost completely useless for anybody that did not buy one of the recent Denon amplifiers.... I happen to have PMA 2000 which is still very good and the remote does not affect it at all. The original remote of my amp is good enough to operate both the CD player and the amp. I find it utterly unacceptable that the incompatibility of the remote of the new CD player with older Denon amplifiers is not spelled out in advance in the product description!For classical music users this is a good unit though.

I've used the Denon DCD-600NE CD player for a month and am very happy with my purchase. I bought it a bit hesitantly because the NAD C 538 I was considering was unavailable for months due to supply chain shortages and some of the reviews here hinted at quality issues.In the month I've had it, I've been pleased with the warm sound of this player, the solid construction, and its ability to play CDs that skipped on my old player. I didn't encounter any quality issues. A nice touch is that the display shows the artist and name of the song for MP3s.A few nitpicks: I am not a fan of remotes for everything. This product could be better if the random play function and the pure direct feature were accessible by buttons on the unit instead of on the remote. It seems silly to keep a remote around just for these two functions.

This CD player worked fine, and sounded great, for six and a half months. A couple days ago, it stopped reading discs, displaying the "Can't Read Disc" error. That error was common for many of the CD-Rs that I had burned, but never for commercial CDs. Now every CD, commercial or otherwise, triggers the error, without exception. I tried leaving it off for a few hours, unplugging it, just to see if it were just some weird glitch, but that didn't resolve the problem. (I saw that at least one other Amazon reviewer reported this problem within having the unit for less than a year, so it doesn't appear to be a one-off problem.)So, faced with the cost to ship it to a repair center (and probably springing for shipping insurance, too), and given the reports I've seen of repairs taking four to six months (with no guarantee that the warranty would be honored), I decided to take the cover off and see whether cleaning the lens would help. I tried a dry cotton swab first, which didn't help. Isopropyl alcohol on the lens didn't help, either. I also sprayed the inside with compressed air, although that was unnecessary because the inside of the player was entirely dust-free. And there were no obvious failed components inside (e.g., broken belt, disconnected ribbon cable, etc.).I've decided to consider my Denon purchase a sunk cost and put whatever money I'd spend on the repair toward buying another CD player. In almost fifty years of owning stereo equipment, I've had only one item that failed so soon after acquisition, and that was a cheapo Radio Shack all-in-one system that I purchased about 45 years ago. Everything else has lasted years or decades. Too bad, because the sound of the Denon player was outstanding.I rarely buy extended warranties but, like others, I recommend doing so if you purchase this CD player. I now wish I had done so.

There are several good and reasonably-priced CD players out there. The DCD is a little pricey but somehow I wanted it as the companion to the PMA600. The Denon literature plays up the analog side of things, which I quickly ignored by connecting a digital cable. However, it kept bugging me and so I tried it. To my surprise, the analog connection produced the better sound with practically no background noise. Choose analog mode and pure direct on the PMA, pure direct mode 2 on the DCD. And now it makes sense to have this player.

This CD players sounds great. It includes Denon's upscaling tech from their more expensive CD players. It gets the detailed sound out of the recording. It does not have a wide or deep soundstage, but for 500 dollars it is a very good CD player. Nice build quality also.

This unit replaces a very old Denon multi-disc player. I play though coax into my Denon amp and the sound is great. Seems solidly built. When I bought the 900 it was only about $25 more than the 600. I appreciate having both optical and coax output (in addition to RCA) and front panel USB input. (My Denon amp has USB input but the plug is on the back - not useful when the amp is in a cabinet.) I sometimes put off-the-air recordings from computer onto a USB stick and play them through the amp. (I probably could play them directly from the computer using the amp's HEOS.) Since I have a Denon amp I appreciate controlling both through one remote.