The best CD Player for the money

No doubt in my mind. The Musical Fidelity X-Ray is a great machine at a really good price. Looks and sounds very satisfying indeed.
Try pairing it with the X-10v3 tube buffer and X-PSU (power supply) and I think you'll be even more delighted.
I have all three and I am exceptionally pleased.

The next player I purchase is the best for my money.

Sammie,
Maybe he is still choosing!! ;)

$10000 can buy a hell of a unit but it would have to been supported by more "hell of a unit"-units in order for it to be worth it, right?(dac/amps/speakers/cables, etc.)
And what sounds good to you , where you play it, etc., is what counts. So go to your sources for cd players and a good store will let you borrow the unit for home field listening and even direct comparisons with other players or even maybe some of your buddies' players. l assume you've got the rest of your system but no cd player.
l went through tons of players and all were tested at home but l wasn't prepared to pay $3000 and plus for a transport and seperate dac set-up, nor was l going to go by store listening. l ended up with a Denon DCD 1560 that compared better than alot of "high end" names and even Denon's top end unit---the 1560 worked well with what l had.(Tannoy/Onkyo/Teac,Preose,etc.)
Good luck, Lilfish

Everyone has his opinion on this subject, and what is affordable to one is not to another. I'd like to recommend the very affordable Denon "Audiophile Series" DCD-1650AR, original MSRP $1,000-$1,200, but good used ones are available for half of that. They have "Alpha Processing with Real 20-Bit 4-DAC Advanced Super Linear Converter," 8-Times Oversampling Digital Filter. I have two (one modified, one stock) and have been using one or the other for the past two years. Each one gives date of manufacture on back (both mine are 1999). They sound great, are built like battleships, with serious power supplies (weight 26 lbs. 4 oz.), and work flawlessly. I've owned a number of CD players over the past 20 years, and I think you will have to spend a lot more to beat the sound of one of these.