Biggest soundstage in a CD Player ?

Check out the Audiomeca unit or the EMC-1. List are
$7500 and $4000 respectively. You can buy demo units
for roughly $5000 and $2800. For less try Naim units
but cost is not straight forward as you need power
upgrades which adds to price. Hold out on buying new
until format is standardized.

With what you have listed you can do no wrong. Boy that sounds tacky. I have been serching also. What I have found is that digital is digital and analog is analog. The technology of the two are different. Stay away from products that use this as a selling tool, i.e. belt drive or tonearm style etc. Mark Levinson, Wadia, and Accuphase do digital best. Period. If you like to tweak go for the others it's your money. For me I take the tweak money and I buy the music. Mark Levinson engineers their gear to go from the box to the rack. Of the three I listed ML gives the same high-end digital for less money. Plus it looks great!!! When you go high-end the sound becomes personal. Speakers,amps, and front-ends. Trust your ears and go for what turns your head. For me, Mark Levinson just sounds right! Peace and good listening.

The Marantz SA-1 SACD/CD player. A clear cut winner over Wadia product and Levinson.

ps. Check my previous threads for reasons why the Marantz
SA-1 is possibly the world's best natural sounding player.

Topkat, is the SA-1 tweakable (if applicable)? Could you indicate partnering your equip -- I'm assuming you have a SA-1?.
I'm currently considering a "reasonably" priced CDP to replace my, not so reasonably priced, S-Line.

Thanks.