Recommendation wanted to upgrade my NAD CDP

The Music Hall CD-25 is an absolutely amazing player for the money, has HDCD and has a raft of upgrades available, starting with a simple opamp swap that makes it much better than stock. I replaced a very highly regarded $3,000 transport/DAC combination with a CD-25, swapped out the opamps myself and the Music Hall is better sounding in every way than the more expensive rig.

Might want to consider using your computer as a transport; add a decent used DAC - lower jitter.

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You have your library at your finger tip.

I've heard the Arcam CD73 against the NAD 542 & the Planet 2000, and it beat both of them cleanly. Just more musical & pleasant to listen too, without being boring. I think it's $799 new.

Good luck,
Friz