what are the Best Direct to amps Digital Players ?

I am not sure if I misinterpreted something posted above. But if I did then maybe others did as well.

For the record: My Romulus plays CD-Rs (16/44.1) very well. I am spinning a homemade compilation disk as I type.

Audiolabyrinth,
I have always been enamored of Krell amps. The Krell products I have owned in the past are the junior integrated amps, the 300i and its progeny the 400. The reason why I never upgraded to the bigger amps is that they are pure Class A, which means putting out a lot of heat and at the same time emptying my wallet for the monthly electricity bill even at idle, which could otherwise go towards buying more music.
I have not heard the Cipher but the Evo model before it sounded gorgeous in the showroom. The Stereophile review of the Cipher awarded it Class A as you already know.
You can just get the Cipher with the stock Krell CAST cables. The CAST connection with a used Krell KCT preamp(also very well received by the pros) may just be the ticket to audio nirvana. Well, it's either that or sonic hell but I very much doubt it could ever be the latter.
Cheers!

I need to ammend my previous post. My Romulus is new to me. I just found some CD-Rs I have that will not play. Some I have play and some do not. They are different brands of CD-Rs made on different computers. So it remains somewhat of a crap shoot.

I can say that the CD-Rs that play sound very good.

@ Don_s, Hi, I really Had my hopes for the Romulus, Its a fine machine, however, it does not up-sample my stock red book cds to 24/192 format, and I have cdrs that were recorded by folks that I know with state of the art computer systems with costly sound cards, my cdrs are my best software I own!, I love the tube compliment the Romulus has, I just do not dig the transport or the dacs!, you have a awsome player, congrats!, unfortunally, I cannot use it, Aesthetix did say they were working on another player to be introduced, cheers.

@ jon2020, Hi, We use to own a Krell 300I, that was on our second system, We loved it!, To us, Its the best intergrated amp for the money you can buy on the used market period!, We have never listened to a 400 intergrated, we plan to buy another one for a second system again, we had to sale ours to help pay for the Taralabs zero gold I/C,,, unless you say the 400 is substanially better?