Something to consider?
Audiolab 6000CDT transport will blow your socks off,
Comes in under £400.
Use mine with a 6K Dac, and it betters a modded Oppo 203 bluray player as a CD transport, and that's over i2s into the same Dac.
Currently modding mine,
I still don't know how good it is.
Wouldn't consider a 2nd hand CD player nowadays.