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CD Player Recommendation

I know this has been done to death, but help if you can. I am downsizing to a one box CD player from seperates. My budget is $1800. I can't stretch any further and I am buying used. I am interested in any opinions on upsampling Cd players among others and I'm wondering if anyone other than a dealer has heard the Shanling player. I am definitely not interested in SACD or DVD Audio. To help here is my system:
Air Tight ATC-1 Preamp
c-j Premiere 11a amp
Sonus Faber Grand Piano Speakers (originals)
various wire.
Thank you all in advance for your help.
Jon
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john_l
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At the 1800 price point you have lots of options. The sony 777ES or XA777 would be my personal choices. The SACD tips them into favor for me. They are great stock but getting them audiomod'ed makes a huge improvement.

Other great players are the resolution audio cd-50, son xa7es ($1000) and the theta miles (echohifi.com has one for $975). The CD-50 has a wonderful analog output stage. Very quiet.

I have not heard either, but I understand the tube arc cd-2 and the tube cary cd-301 are great players.
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