The new Tascam CD-200BT CD player I just bought is working! Along with the Cambridge Audio AXC35 CD Player I now have two working CD Players both hooked up to the amplifier, one by the digital input and one by the analog input.
It's awfully hard to find CD players, for such demanding customers that require CD Players to actually PLAY CDS! Course it's only a few days for the Tascam and 7 months for the Cambridge, but that's more than can be said than about the new Audiolab 7000, NAD or Yamaha which can't even play a cd without skipping and/or sticking, though I must be grateful that the defect was immediately apparent soI can return the defective trash promptly.
It's a guess if or when the two working units may migrate to my broken CD Player collection, so far composed of Denon, Onkyo and Pioneer, but I now have a working backup CD Player at all times, rather than rely on desperate purchases of what turn out to be short lived units from Onkyo/Pioneer (same company) as I have in the past.
Note, that the two have some opposing design defects: the Cambridge has forced power off at about 10 minutes or so with no way to avoid it; the Tascam stays on until it's turned off with the button on the front of the unit and cannot be turned on or off with the remote control.
The Tascam allows seeing the length of the track in advance while the Cambridge does not (neither does NAD or Yamaha), which could make it a pain to find out how long the last track of a CD is, which could be 40 minutes. Unfortunately both the Tascam and Cambridge (along with NAD and Yamaha) have near uselessly slow fast-forward or rewinding.
I removed the "rackmount" from the Tascam by unscrewing the "wings" to make it a little more presentable as an ordinary CD Player.