Interesting comments. I agree with some of the above cost is not a good way to qualify a disk player. You should listen to one model and listen to the one above it and see if you can hear more detail or soundstage etc preferably in your system. That is the only really way to tell.
As far as all this talk of disk players going away I don't see it anytime soon on high end audio. The Dax is important but there is not a pc yet that can feed it and make it sound as good as my cd player. I have tried all sorts of dacs and sources but I have not tried the new Mach2music just to be fair. What is neat is my wadia will take a USB and has a cd player built in. Anyhow listening is the only way to find one that will match your system. If you need a number I find I need to spend about 6k to get the detail I want in a player.
As far as all this talk of disk players going away I don't see it anytime soon on high end audio. The Dax is important but there is not a pc yet that can feed it and make it sound as good as my cd player. I have tried all sorts of dacs and sources but I have not tried the new Mach2music just to be fair. What is neat is my wadia will take a USB and has a cd player built in. Anyhow listening is the only way to find one that will match your system. If you need a number I find I need to spend about 6k to get the detail I want in a player.