Attn Vinyl lovers - what CD Player do you use?

For the first time, my digital is actually sounding great! Just bought a MHDT Havana Balanced, non-oversampling, tube output, DAC. For the first time, I hear MUSIC though the digital; truly, amazing, emotional, music.

I've had an Oppo BDP-95 that I've took from my HT and although it has always sounded good, it has always felt like it lacked the "emotions". Kind of "great bass on that recording", to with the MHDT "that's a great bass player". I keep listening to the music and forgetting the details (and they are all there...).

I was planning to get an inexpensive transport for it, but after spending some serious time with it, I've decided to blow the budget and get a CEC TL1. If that's only half as good as the reviews say it is (admitting, I took a chance and bought it unheard... but the price is good enough that I can sell it for no loss if I don't like it), then there's actually a chance that my digital will outperform my analog... imagine that! :-)

I just bought an Auralic Vega DAC from Audio Doctor and, for the money, it's the most analog sounding DAC I've heard below 10K. At $3500.00, it's a steal.

Just acquired an old Cal Audio DX-1 and it's the first CD player I've heard that sounds like vinyl to me.

Ster4

What other under 10k Dacs did you listen to
I'm demoing the Vega but have limited access to other Dacs and limited experience

Bow Technologies zz8 drive, and Mac Mini with Pure Music / Core Audio Technololgies Kora power supply and level 3 Power filter, feeding a Brinkmann Zenith 3 dac via an Audiophilleo 2 USB reclocker. The Bow + Brinkmann combination is the closest thing I've heard to the liquid, free-flowing, natural feel of vinyl, without artificial extra "warmth" trying to pass for analogue sound. The upgraded Mac Mini sounds even better on some levels - bigger soundstage, incredible resolution, deeper bass and even more dynamics - but a tad less harmonically rich, probably a factor of it not being quite burnt-in yet. The Zenith operates in 16/44 which theoretically makes it a very outdated design - but as far as my ears are concerned it wiped the floor with a lot of high rez devices, including a Mark Levinson 24/96 DAC I had on loan for a while, and the - however excellent - built-in DAC in the Marantz UD 9004 I use in a separate HT room.
The only glitch is - the Zenith is basically impossible to find, especially in this version - which has been considerably upgraded by the ex-Brinkmann designer who came up with it in the first place and happens to be a friend. But put your hands on a used Bow zz8 and you will get very close already - the built-in DAC sounds a little less open than the brinkie but has a very definite analogue feel.