Save your money. Digital playback is not like analog where better/more costly mechanical engineering produces better sound. If whatever digital device - CD/DVD player - is used to extract the digital stream the 0's and 1's don't care. They are all the same.
Cary Audio CD Player 306/200 Upgrading a transport
I purchased the Cary Audio 306/200 CD Player in 2004 for its retail price of $5000.00. I later purchased a Chord Qutest Dac and the sound improved and I began to use the Cary exclusively as a transport. I recently purchased a Weiss DAC 204 and the sound improved once again. Here's the question, would upgrading to an Audiolab 9000 transport currently retailing for $1500.00 be an improvement over the Cary CD Player? There are also other transports such as the Shanling ET-3, Jays Audio CD transport, MK III and Leak Audio CD transport. I find the Cary build like a tank and is all steel. But has cd transport technology improved in the last 20 years? Thanks for the input.