Are DACs superior to top-graded regular CD Players

Don't think there will be a definitive answer to this question.

My personal preference after much experience is for separate DAC and transport. For instance, I currently own an Aesthetix Romulus Eclipse CDP and I prefer the sound from a separate transport (CEC) feeding the Romulus DAC.
Go figure, I have no explanation. In retrospect I would have been better off with the Aesthetix Pandora DAC.

I figured what the hell the transport in the CDP doesn't add that much cost over the DAC price so I went for the CDP. But I'm not using the CDP drive so what did I save?

The only voodoo bull**** in this thread is the bogus advice being given by a
a certain member who spends too much time reading 'Audio Engineering
for idiots' who espouses throwing money down the drain on a 25 year old
vintage player. Easy come, easy go as they say. Now I'll let you get back to
your little soap box...

Your the one who advised him without technical knowledge to throw a small fortune in Jupiter, Deulund or Mundorf capacitors into it, without even knowing the circuit parameters of this unit if they can work with it or not.

Please tell the owner and myself, exactly in what position in the circuit these Jupiter, Deulund or Mundorf caps should go and which caps they are to subsitute, and what value in uF and V they should be??

Cheers George

Thank you, Audiogon People, for your responses to my first-ever thread on Audiogon! I have a Jolida DAC on order (with new tubes,supposedly superior caps and rewiring, no less!)
I will post back and let you know what I think of it and its sound; talk to you all later... -Steve A.

Good luck Steve! Do tell us how things go.