CD"S

I’ve paired my CD’s down to about 1400, and am very interested in this thread. 
I currently have an Oppo 93 and a Shitt Bifrost multi DAC but hope to upgrade my player/Transport.

I’ll be lurking. 😁

JD

$3000.00 for a CD Player!  $300.00 maybe. Start thinking along the lines of the Elcaset, the Open Reel, the Cassette Tape, Beta Tape, 8-Track Tape, 78-RPM, 33 1/3, RPM, and all the other formats that have become obsolete. Please don't get upset turntable lovers. Tubes and spinning platters are a wonderful pastime for the hobbyist. Constantly cleaning records and replacing tubes can provide hours of enjoyment.  But if we are boldly going forward towards the momentary suspension of disbelief, let us embrace the future and free ourselves from the world of petroleum platters, shredding tapes, and other museum worthy artifacts.   

bany, I'm saving the world by purchasing as many used "petroleum platters" as I find worthy, to save them (at least temporarily) from the dreaded landfill. You're welcome. 

My enjoyment of the hobby includes the tactile and the kinetic aspects. I like to touch the record and marvel at how it can produce wonderful music. I like placing the stylus in the groove and anticipating the music starting as the turntable spins. I like looking at the covers and reading the liner notes and I like how I can still faintly hear the music coming from the record grooves if I play the record with the amps turned off. To me, records, or vinyl as they are now referred to, are magical, mysterious and amazingly musical. I was fortunate enough to have a career in radio broadcasting where I got paid to play records until the early 1990's. I discovered records before I was 2 years old and 70 years later my love of them has only increased.
Your mileage may vary.

We're going a bit far afield. 

The OP asked for advice between going to a new CD disk player, perhaps the Yamaha, or to hard disk.