A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC?

Crutchfield rep said that also: “Can you really HEAR the difference?” 
 

…and who would WANT to? And then… more confusing decisions to have to make, and the comparisons are always on different canvases. I think that it’s all about the looks of machines, ego, and the specs that support it …kinda like thinking the paper on spec sheets has sound?

moose89

I own (3) CD/SACD players and their respective  built-in DAC (s) are very fine.

Happy Listening!

So, I went ahead and bought a Sony DVP-S9000ES. THANK Y’ALL!! 

moose89 

You hit it out of the park with that choice. You will not be disappointed. I own a Sony XA ES model and it is an exceptional experience to play plain old red book CDs on it as well as SACDs Have fun!

My studies show if you have a bit perfect player you will be hard pressed to screw it up with a DA converter.  The audio section however is what matters, as well as the filtering curves.  So, again the analog sections supersede the digital as long as the digital section has some minimally good performance.