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

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.

moose89

Excellent! Keep me posted as you massage the DVP-9000ES into your room/system.

Happy Listening!

DVP-S9000ES : corrected.

I believe you may be asking what CD players are strictly transports so you can send your digital signal straight to your Node and use the Node's DAC. You seem to realize that you can send the digital signal directly through the coax or optical outs on the player but your question is why have to pay for a DAC in the CD player if you are planning on using the Node's DAC. You want recommendations on CD transports I am guessing?

Cambridge Audio offers one, CXC V2 CD Transport (No DAC Onboard). Audiolab, Denon and a lot of other companies also offer CD Transports only, no DAC on board. I hope this answers your question.