help a Die hard ANALOG guy choose a budget CDP

There is no need to spend 1300 to get top shelf sound...

In your opinion which players define this 'top shelf sound'...?

Spencer-  I think a streamer is what I want to explore. The word THINK in that last sentence, is because I want to research if a streamer has better sound than a CDP in the same price range. In my reading, I've stumbled across the brands you mentioned, along with Chord, Lumin, Bricasti, and Halide. Sure, I'd like to play my 100 or so CD's, but not at the expense of lesser sound quality. This is the door I wanted to open. Perhaps having just CD player in my initial post was a tad incomplete . I apologize for that, and thanks to all for your suggestions. Again, I'm  a bit out of touch with CD players, but with streaming, totally green.  

If you have that kind of budget, don't buy any CD player at all.  A good DAC with destroy the same priced CD player and those at 5X their cost, period.  Stop spinning CDs.  Moving parts, jitter, optics, laser, motor, etc.

Buy a simple program like dBPoweramp or similar, rip all your CDs in at at least 24/96k FLAC or WAV and prepare to lose your mind when you hear them through the right DAC. 

My Eastern Electric tube DAC ($1,350 new), a Line Magnetic tube DAC or used DAC from Chord, Mytek, Ayre, Auralic, etc.

Getting into computer based audio is not that difficult a transition. I use a MAC laptop and can take my music where I need it.  I don't think you would have to spend your entire budget on a DAC to accomplish your goal if you go that route.

I had one thought, does the Marantz 8005 have digital input? 

Agree... a "decent" DAC can be had for under that budget (used).  At the minimum, maybe get a Cambridge Audio DAC Magic Plus (about $500 new), just to get a taste for it.

The computer necessary to simply run the program (Like JRiver) doesn't need to be anything special in terms of CPU, RAM or anything either, or can just be a laptop. 

Just kinda need a big hard drive full of music.  The computer is just to run the software from and organize the music really. 

I use JRiver on a cheap Dell PC (about $350 new) with 8TB of external hard drives attached to it and JRemote on my iPad Mini.... very easy.  Sit in your chair with access to tens of thousands of songs AND it will sound better than your CD player.