Best CD player now made.

I own a (beloved) 508.24 and have demoed at home the following other players:
- ML 39: WAY cleaner, proper and high endish sounding but NO emotion - boring
- Accuphase DP55V: detailed and articulated but also a tad souless in my humble opinion; nice but no cigar
- Quad CDP99: very nice unit for the money (actually a real bargain) - awfully close to the 508; remote volume control a nice feature; a tad (and I mean very little more) thicker sounding than the 508; an excellent choice but no real upgrade over a 508
- Consonance 2.2: very refined, airy and musical - actually outdoes the 508 on these factors ... but lacks crually slam and weight in the low end; not enough boogie factor.
- Musical Fidelity Nuvista 3D: perhaps a question of system synergy but in mine, I would give it 3/10: forward soundings, almost brittle, no musicality (really strange considering the rave reviews and the tube construction; perhaps have I tested a defective unit?)
- Wadia 301: nice but also no cigar. a tad mechanical. not enough alpability; quality of timbres not up to par with the 508.
- and finally yes I tested recently the new Meridian G08: which left me wondering, as I had it at home only for 1 evening; clearly outguns the 508 in terms of pace, slam (yes it's possible), rythm, attack, speed sensation and (more marginally) detail/air; but in my system & for my taste it was almost too much excitement, and emotion/musicality were somehow left a bit wanting. Perhaps was it not fully broken in, and by playing around with set up, cables, ... could I have had reached real happiness but didn't have time. I would say lots of potential but jury's still out as far as I am concerned.

Hope that helps - any good advice on clear winners over the 508.24 would be appreciated (Res. Audio Opus 21, AA capitole MKII, Accuphase 67 or 77???).
My system is currently B&W N802, then all Meridian, 508.24 CD, G02 preamp and 559 amp (fantastic units btw), Fadel art interconnect and Audioquest Gibraltar biwire cables.
Thank you!

I have noot heard all of these but they are worth mentioning if you are going to consider big buck players:

Meridian: 808, G08
Audio Aero: Capitole-II
Reimyo 777

The BAT D5SE is now available with the SUPERPAK upgrade, which adds further capacitance above the standare SE SIXPAK upgrade.
So far, in my listening, I have noticed deeper and tighter bass and more dynamics. It is still in the break-in process.

Give the Aloia a try. It smokes a lot mentioned here. It also allows for two digital inputs for other digital sources. Digital output, RS232 for upgrades and 12 volt switch on. It also has a tuner module as an option. It uses inductive power supply and does upsampling. 8007524018

I just wish that those who stated "the best that I've heard" identify specifically what they have heard. Otherwise it sounds like joke. I would also be very interested in particularities. For example: "best” because it has more energy or more musical or more details or more transparent etc. The most fare way to respond would be to say - in my system which consist of so and so I prefer this player because it sounds more transparent, musical, dynamic, etc then so an so which I have heard before in my system.
I'm always wondering how people could say what is "the best" even in the same system. For a year or so I'm playing with two very well known DACs in the same system which I own, to the point when gold on the connectors begin to show ware of, and I still wouldn't be able to say that one of them is "the best” from those two or even that one is better then another. Each of them has pros and cons, plus it also depends on what CD you play at the moment. So, what is it all about?