Suggest something that plays CDs and streams for around 3000?

I stand corrected.
Thanks m-dbI I had no clue.
Just the tax puts it above budget.
Unless you live in Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire or Oregon

@m-db 

It's on my NEXT list. Do you own it?

Cocktail is what I use.. What a jewel.

1500-3000.

DAC
Great CD/Ripper and playback
One or two hard drive bays
Streamer/Server
Balanced
VERY well built. I’m talking serious build quality, HEAVY!

It will double as a standalone Preamp and has a phono input for playback or to digitize you LPs. 1/4, USB, WiFi, RCA, XLT, all the digital hook ups.

Cool little unit..

I had to fix it too. The wife manage to mess up the caddy, DON’T ASK!
I took the top off, pulled the CD unit and installed a new one in 15 minutes while sipping my morning Joe.. 300-350.00 new

I had it hooked directly to a Cary V12r valve amp and class ds doing bass duty. I also used a Puffin as a Phono/Tape Preamp doubling for my Reel to Reel too. BIGGER :-) A work in progress...

Like I said two great preamps.

My Cocktail and a Parasound Zpre3, are two of the biggest bang for the buck buys out there. AND I’m a MAC guy...OK... Big time..

It was bought in 2016, about 5-6000 hours of actual CD play time and 15000 hours of just being on, and used as a preamp for HD, streaming, TT or RtR playback.

Regards

A pretty good CD player with USB input are the new Luxman units. You can play CD/SACDs with these players. You can also hook up a streamer to the USB input and then stream into the internal DAC of the CD player. It is a good solution for someone with a lot of CDs.

I have a Sony SCD-1 player for CD/SACD’s and a Gustard X26 Pro DAC ($1500) with ROON READY Rendu streamers from Sonore. However with my solution I need 2 source inputs on my preamp.

The Rendu’s have excellent sound quality and are ROON READY. They take Fiber Optical cable or regular Ethernet and input into the USB input of a DAC.

BTW - the lower cost Luxman CD player/DAC is $3K and the top of the line one is $16K.