I'll have what he's having:
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From my experience, a lot of single try players sound better than changers. The logic being that since there's no cost for a changer mechanism, they can put better processors in. I had a Sony single that sounded excellent. I've been running a Yamaha CD-C600 carousel with a Burr Brown chip in it for a while now. Very nice sounding player that isn't finicky.
Not sure what you mean by BT ApX
https://www.aptx.com/
Its better quality BT for Audio, my BLT-2 has it along with the X3. That’s what the “A” is on my player next to the BT icon.
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That was yesterday, but see the “A”? Upper left