The best CD Player for the money

This thread which started 3years ago shows evolving flavour
of the season changes in best bang cd playback units.Would
be interesting to keep it going to see what future trends
crop up.I believe one trend is SACD camp sees they must make sacd playback a standard inclusion on all players for that format to survive in hopes that eventually all owners of such units will want to give the higher rez media a spin.
I imagine DVD-A will be standard as well.Much like most HT receivers have all decoding schemes on board.Makers are
covering thier respective bets.

Have to agree with Ritten, my Wadia 301 is the best money
I spent on hi-fi gear. Through the whole musical scale, it's superb. Have to say, but, works better with a preamp.
Directly into an amp, you lose some weight in the music.
Go for balanced option to hear it at its best.

Markone: If you want to see the true potential of the 301, spend an extra $1600 through GNSC. Its performance will surpass a standard Wadia 861se. They perform alot of critical damping, rip out alot of unecessary circuits which actually degrade performance and add some critical components to maximise the design which is alot better than its $3650 price tag shows.

I heard that the person jazze has changed his name and still is a member.I know he is from New York because I bought something from him a while back.Anyway I just thought that you may want to know this.

I tried to upgrade and switching CDP at the sub $2000 price range from Rega Planet, Jupiter, Alchemist, MArantz CD-12 mod, Rotel 981, Audio Analog but they all have a something good and something bad which make you feel like to upgrade when you owned them for a few months.... so I decide to move up the ladder to the $3000 or over CDP. Here I tried the Krell 300cd (the newer silver version), Wadia 301, Metronome CD-2V Signature but I settled with the NuVista. It is just so much more musical than the Wadia 301. The Wadia is my second favourite but once you have it compared side by side, all my three friends (have diff taste) agreed the NuVista should make music and better pace. Hard to tell in words, it is not faster or slower, but the pace is better and more like a Master playing live music and the Wadia is like the student playing the music...... For just about $3000 you can a used NuVista at a significant saving these days -- a MUST TRY!!! The NuVista is a very very heavy CDP and very well-built at this price.