the best CD player between 6'000 - 10'000 $ ?

I listen almost exclusively to classical music (both small and large ensembles) and I suggest you save some cash and get a Marantz SA11-S2 CD/SACD player (around $3500 new). It does everything well for acoustic instruments in both CD and SACD. I've enjoyed mine going on 9 months now and has been a stellar musical performer. If you want to burn some more money, there's always the top-of-the-line Maranta SA7-S1 (which I have not heard). That one costs $6500 new. Good luck.

10k
Emm Labs CDSA SE
PlayBack Design MPS 5

6k
CARY CD 303/306
Ayre C 5xe
Ayre C x7e

I had an EAR Acute that I liked a lot until I discovered the Ancient Audio Lektor Prime. Both are excellent.

esoteric xo3se

you cant go wrong with esoteric

I'll open the ball with a player about which much has been written the last couple of months

AMR CD 77
(whereby I take for granted 1) that you're looking for the "warmth" of human performance, not coloration or even tonal distortion, and 2) you do want to hear deep, clean bass if and when required)

You can surf through my threads/answers and will find other Audiogoner's systems with the AMR at the digital heart (some of which have a classical music priority)