I was thinking about getting into cds since the songs I want aren’t available on Qobuz to buy and the art would be cool to have on a case.
How about buying a used one? I guess there should be plenty of them on the market which aren’t really used anymore, so unless you have very specific needs, I don’t see the need to produce and buy new ones.
There’s the Danish company Lyngdorf, who make the CD-2. It costs a whopping €2999,- though. NAD is Canadian and makes CD players around the €400 mark. If you consider Canada an honorary EU member that’s an option ;)
Does “European-built” mean a strict “manufactured in the EU” or do European brands in general count? In the latter case, Philips would obviously come to mind, co-inventors of the CD. They made quite high-quality CD players as far as I know. But I don’t know where they were produced.
Cambridge Audio is UK based.
So far I have found one that’s eu-made called CD Box S3 at
