Please recommend a CD player for me. Audio only, 2.1 system. I have a Parasound P5 pre with a Parasound 21 amp, Snell A2 speakers, a Snell 550 sub with its own amp, a Snell SPA 200 and good cables. Thanks for your thoughts
Maranz is nice but for the SA-113 price you can find a used SA-1 or SA7. These are some of the very best digital players at any price. And yes I have tried and owned a lot of different digital players.
Pick up a used CDP from the Sony ES line and mate it to an external DAC via a decent coax cable.
Best bang-for-your-buck (used) DAC under $500 is the Teac UD-501, IMHO. YMMV.
I upgraded from a Sony S9000ES (mated to a Teac UD-501) to an Esoteric DV-50S. The Sony/Teac combo came very close to the redbook performance of the Esoteric!
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