Entry Level Transport

A used PS Audio Lambda II will kill those transports.

.. Should have put this in the initial post.

The Pioneer I am considering because I have heard it is a decent transport and down the road I can certainly add an external DAC to it.

The HK 5 Disc CD player atleast has HDCD decoding on it but it is extremely sensitive to vibrations so i will be getting a platform for it and probably eventually get an external dac as well.

The HK DV25 I thought had a better DAC than the CD player and most likely the Pioneer and in the price point I've been reasonably impressed with the build quality, even if the remote is horrible.

If there is another entry level transport that I should be considering (with future addition of a DAC [mmm bel canto]) please let me know.

A DVD player so I can replace my existing pioneer would be nice, but a standalone CD player is fine as well.