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DAC or CD player

I'm looking to upgrade from an MSB Link(plain). I've had a couple dacs over the years (CJ D/A 2b, CAL Sig) all through a trusty Rotel 955AX as a transpo. Was wondering if there were any thoughts out there about just moving to a used kick-butt type integrated player (cec, cary, classe, naim, ect), or just go dac hunting again. I'm running a homebrew tube power amp and a Audible Illusions Modulus pre.
Thanks
spikletron

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cymbop
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This might not be what you wanted to hear, but two cents:

I've been using a $38 Sony DVD player as a transport into my Wyred4Sound DAC-2. A friend gave me his old 955AX with the (reasonable) assumption that it would have a better digital out than the cheap Sony. So I compared the two in my system, and the cheap-ass Sony won by a mile, with the Rotel sounding grey and veiled in comparison. Even the wife thought it was an easy call.
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