A CD PLAYER whose sound quality NOT AFFECTED by the DAC?

moose89

I own (3) CD/SACD players and their respective  built-in DAC (s) are very fine.

Happy Listening!

So, I went ahead and bought a Sony DVP-S9000ES. THANK Y’ALL!! 

moose89 

You hit it out of the park with that choice. You will not be disappointed. I own a Sony XA ES model and it is an exceptional experience to play plain old red book CDs on it as well as SACDs Have fun!

My studies show if you have a bit perfect player you will be hard pressed to screw it up with a DA converter.  The audio section however is what matters, as well as the filtering curves.  So, again the analog sections supersede the digital as long as the digital section has some minimally good performance. 

Sony XA7ES, twenty five year old CD players still in use today! Former Stereophile A player that sold for $3k is still going strong with the greatest sound. And no flimsy Phillips based drive system, but Sony’s proprietary drawer featuring the best system ever created. They’re still selling for $1500, if you can find one! I owned two of them, and they featured XLR, co-ax, rca, and an amazing direct volume control allowing you to go without a preamp.

What? Old school audio, that’s where it’s at.