Bang For Your Buck Best Value CD Transport

A Muse Model Five or Eight. Not many available used lately on the Gon, but nicely built (except for the clunky drawer sound)and sounding transports.

Babbabob...yes, Daisy Laser just offers the CD-PRO2M mechanism. It is where ken@diyzone.net (and any other kit makers) get their transport parts...

JVC EXU-901A – OPTIMA-4 or JVC player with Optima 4s. Obviously the player must have digital out option. Optima is a super high quality with lots of metal. I believe laser is real glass. It reads everything. Very reliable.

http://www.ersatzteil.justone-schnepel.de/html/optima-4s_optima4s_jvc.html

Transport JVC EXU-901A with optima 4 was used in these models:
Victor XL-Z900
Victor XL-Z999
Reimyo CDP-777
Krell KPS 25s
Krell KPS 25sc
Phase Tech CT-1

An old Sony BDP-S2000ES Blu Ray player.The internal dac is excellent as well.

Seriously.

I have a Perfect Wave Audio CDT MkII that was purchased used for approx' $650.

This is used with a Bespoke Built Valve DAC and has been a show stopper on quite a few occasions, when demonstrated in my own system and compared against other Digital Sources in other systems.

A DAC with similarities to my own one is available as a Kit Build from the designer for a very very reasonable price on a forum I use. There is always the option to request the device is a Turn Key finish, so no concerns for the need to finish the assembly. 

This DAC is one I am confident will win many supporters, as already seen from reports from a selection of users who have adopted it.