The best CD Player for the money

@ Nonoise, Hi, some how I missed your post about the chassis build quality of the vincent, you are correct, the vincent does have thinner metal and will perform better with tunning, I like that!, being able to change your sound with out electricity is always cool to me!, I have owned digital with built like a tank chassis that sounded bad, no matter what i did, tunning was not available on a chassis like that, it did not work!, the last time I had exsperience with marantz, I did not see any one eighth to quarter inch thickness to the chassis, It is my conclusion, that resonance tunning will work to good effect on any marantz digital player, new or old,, cheers.

I'm currently using a ModWright Sony 5400ES with upgraded tubes. I tried many CDP's and I like this one the best. It beat out my Esoteric unit. I have not tried ModWright's Oppo BDP-105 with digital inputs and newer power supply. That will probably be my replacement in the near future cause I'm eventually going to need a DAC. I want to create a music server.

Cary 306/200 on the used market.

Why has there been so few who recommended the old Philips-based Revox B226? I own one. When converted to run tube outputs amping (eliminating from the PCB any opamps), it will give any 24/96 or any 24/192 CDP a run for their money. One can keep the original oversampling coz it doesn't hurt too much the sound.

I guess that many of us have been around the block a few times, and there are probably a few units out there that are worth recommending. In my day, the three most memorable units in my system at the time, were the Musical fidelity X-Ray, the Cayin CD17, and the Rega Apollo. As it stands, I am currently looking for a new unit since the Cayin has shit the bed. Probably no fix for her. All I know is that I would like to go to a tube based output, with a robust build.
A close second would be to use one of these players along with multi-input dac. Oh boy