Best CD player for around 1K HELP

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Do you have any idea how ignorant you sound? Ten years ago I might have entertained a post like this but no longer. Don't drag newbies down a dead-end as I was dragged (albeit willingly - my fault). Stop the insanity and give credit where credit is due - speakers, speaker placement and source material. CDP's are APPLIANCES and are now obsolete, especially if the d/a is done by your receiver or preamp. Stop it, stop it, stop it.

Don Quixote???

There is no dead end. Just because YOU made bad choices, doesn't mean I did or anyone else has. You are a bitter guy and it shows. Cd hasn't been obsoleted by anything. SACD hasn't caught fire. I have some cd's that sound better than SACD's, and vinyl sounds better than either.

You are the ignorant one. Receiver? There are no recievers in high end. They are mid-fi. D/A (digital) hasn't obsoleted anything in itself. It is compressed, sampled, and processed sounding. Even Meridian lossless packing has dither noise and other digital flaws, so it's far from perfect.

Your findings are indicative of your own sad life and bad attitude.

Unprovable? hardly. Garbage in=garbage out. You would know that if you ever actually owned revealing speakers, again--obviously you have not. You are in the 1% fringe and it shows.

You are tilting against windmills pal, you are raging against the machine. I suggest you get some anti-depressants and crawl back into your cave. You are sadly disgruntled and misguided. Get some professional help. And go away.