A DAC that can make digital sound analog?

@musichead , yes the Analog Devices chips really are different than the new production.

My transport is a PS Audio PWT which uses a buffer to clock the data. Then I have an iFi iPurifier using a Swagman Labs upgraded LPS to the Audio Note. Then adding a High Fidelity CT-2 SPDIF cable was a major upgrade. I demoed it and even though it cost $1100, I had to have it. Its unlike any other cable I've heard. 

From my Bluesound Node 2i I'm using an Empirical Design coax with a Cullen PC.
Using good quality power cords really upgrade performance of digital.

“I am certain digital can sound as good, if not better than, vinyl and tape. And I am curious to find solutions towards that end.”

Emm Labs DA2 is one such DAC that can END your quest. 

Denafrips DACs do it for me.
I have the Pontus and rate it very highly for its density and, at the same time its delicacy.
I use it with Roon and Tidal via an Antipodes DS server/streamer and am continally amazed at the amount of information on a CD that is just waiting for the right equipment with which to reveal it.

Every ModWright I have heard sounds like Sony with more space.  Not analogue at all.  The Oppo is not a very good sounding CD transport like most universal transports.  Example is that if you burn your CD's to a thumb drive it will sound better than the disc spinner.

Because of this, the ModWright may not be what you use with an outboard DAC because you are not even using the mods you paid for.

Best for CD playback is a native Red Book transport not a universal. It takes big bucks for the universal to start sounding good because of the engineering fixes the manufacturers do to optimize the transport.

The most analogue sounding I have heard while not just darkening the info and coloring it is from Aesthetix.

@audiobunker thanks for your thoughts and opinions!!!

Any thoughts on a SONY NS9100ES CD SACD Player as transport, as a player?