Need recommendation for a CD player


Please recommend a CD player for me. Audio only, 2.1 system. I have a Parasound P5 pre with a Parasound 21 amp, Snell A2 speakers, a Snell 550 sub with its own amp, a Snell SPA 200 and good cables. Thanks for your thoughts
ericruff

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Sorry for incomplete info. Any brand is OK, not just Parasound. SACD not necessary, (I only have one The Wall by Pink Floyd, just to experience it). I have an Oppo 103 (not Darbee) in my home theater room. I guess I could get an Oppo 103D and put that with the home theater and put the old Oppo 103 with my audio only system. It just seems like the Oppo has so
many features I wouldn't be using in an audio only system that I ought to get a CD player more focused on just playing CDs. I was thinking of a price range about a $1000 or less.
Which would you give the nod to between (a) Modwright Sony DVP-NS999ES and (b) a new (but not modded) Marantz SA8500, each at the same price of $1,000?
I got to try the Marantz SA 8005. It was nice, but I didn't run any A/B Tests.
. Then, I thought about changing directions. I realized I really do not like fooling with the physical CDs. I have never come up with a great way of storing them. Case Logic binders with sleeves is so cumbersome. Anyway, I started listening to the siren song of copying all that digital info to a computer and then using an iPad at my listener's chair and just looking at lists and cover art instead of binders of CDs. After all, what's the diff, storing digital info on a small CD or tons of digital data on a huge SSD drive?
I had an extra Mac mini sitting around so I started importing all my CDs into iTunes using the Apple Lossless Encoder with error checking on. MANY hours later, I am almost done. The man at the stereo store where I borrowed the Marantz SA 8005 says I should STILL buy the Marantz because it has such a great DAC, that the DAC in my Parasound P5 is sub par, and that I can't touch the DAC in the Marantz at that price point even if I just use the Marantz as a DAC. Do you agree?