So I don’t own a cd player now but what I’d like to add to the conversation is that I completely believe in cables and from my experience the same cables that were an amazing upgrade for my amp, did not play well with my DAC or Streamer. I believe different components need different things out of the cables. In my case I’m pretty sure the Streamer needed more filtering than my amps. Maybe if I were using a power conditioner cable results would have been different.