That price is outrageously high. A nice, working SCD1 is more like $350-$500 range at best. Don't go by their over-hyped sales pitch they are spewing. Almost all commercial sellers spout that crap on eBay. Yeah, yeah, yeah... They cleaned this, rebuilt that, spat on this, wiped that... It still doesn't add up to $700 above average cost.
As an example, I've seen some VERY nice, fully working Rockola CD jukes not sell for $500. A couple years ago, they were hitting $800+, but now they sit for $500. The economy is still sour and people aren't spending their money as freely. In other words, there will be more supply than demand. That lowers prices.
I had a 45 juke and "upgraded" to a CD juke. I will agree that, for some reason, I think my old 45 juke sounded richer and fuller. Don't get me wrong, the CD juke sounds awesome, but the 45 juke just had a little more.
But... I won't go back. My old 45 juke held 200 records and took a solid 2 hours to change the records out. (I'm anal and cleaned all the records before they went into the juke). Out of those 200 records, *if* you had the 45 that had a hit on both sides, you'd only have 400 songs total. That gets old kinda quick. On average, you will only have a solid 300 songs you want to hear, if that.
With the CD juke, it holds 100 CDs. Each cd has, on average, 10-15 songs. (Heck, some of my oldies CDs have 23 songs!). The best part is that I made my own CDs. Start off with a group's "Greatest Hits" CD and add on songs that were missed. I loaded the juke a good 4+ years ago and still haven't heard every song. I also made some Christmas CDs for the season. Three to four Xmas CDs, about a good 60 songs, and it takes 2 minutes to change. When I had less than that on the 45s, it took a solid hour to change them around.
For sound, there are some 45 jukes that just can't be beat. For almost as good sound and a LOT easier to deal with, CD jukes are the way.