CDP or DAC?

if not a modwright modded or vsei sony i originally suggested...

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649751607-luxman-d03x/?utm_source=featured_ad&utm_medium=web...

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649756954-esoteric-x-03se-sacd-player-special-edition/

https://www.usaudiomart.com/details/649748427-esoteric-k-03-cd-player-excellent-condition/

oh, and btw, most decent cd players have at least 1 or 2 digital outputs, so you can still use an outboard dac if you wish, now or later

no time warp  😄

melm...Some cd players today do support streaming..with digital in’s and out’s...like my Luxman. Not as archaic as you think.

@aolmrd1241…

Good point… perhaps that is not as well known as I thought. I assumed at this point most high end companies have positioned their CD players to be DAC / CD players. When I bought a Sim Moon 650D about ten years ago it was advertised as a DAC with a transport. As I have pointed out elsewhere, I use my ARC CD9se as a DAC and seldom use the transport. I haven’t done a lot of research on other CD players. But I would think anyone in the market for a CD player are auditioning it as a DAC as well. A CD player is a one box mechanical transport, dedicated streamer and DAC.

@aolmrd1241
Yes, of course. My Oppo 105 has had streaming for a long long time. But the question for me is always SQ, just like whether reading data off a CD or off an HD yields better SQ. Will the combo unit stream as well as a dedicated streamer--always remembering that the quality of the bits delivered to the DAC matters.

What I meant to say was obsolete was the use of disk readers, except for ripping.

I’d go with “georgehifi” and “melm” - rip your cd’s to FLAC files on a solid state drive (not hard drive) and play via a good streamer to an R2R dac like Holo Audio, Denafrips, AGD, Yggdrasil, or the bargain MHDT. 
I use the Bryston BDP-2 to the Yggy - and never look back! Can’t beat the sound or the convenience.