Best CD Player for 800-1500 Used

The Arcam FMJ CD23T might be another worthy unit to consider.

Tom.

I replaced my NAD S500 with an upsampled Njoe Tjoeb 4000. In my opinion the Njoe Tjoeb is FAR better than the S500.
Craig

If you want soundstage depth that will knock your socks off, you should get a tube Jolida JD100. Put NOS tubes in it and you will be surprised. No SS CD player I have ever tried even comes close to this (Arcam CD23 and Classe 1.5 included). Arthur

Buy one of the used Ack dac's for $300 and mate it with a $45 Toshiba 3960 DVD player and you will have a CD player far above what you expect and as good as any mentioned above. I have owned the Arcam, Opus 21,AA Prima, Consonance 2.0 Reference and this combo is every bit as good. yep, spend only $350.

Bill

Ditto on the Audio Research CD-2 mentioned above. How about the good old Sony CDP-XA7ES? I just listed my Audio Research DAC-5 for sale hereon. I believe it to sound slightly better than the CD-2 when connected to a decent transport with a decent cable (at least in my system).