The Most "Analog" CD Player?

Meridian 506 20 bit, just my opinion.  Also have a 24 bit but don't notice any appreciable difference.  They can be picked up on the used market.  Took about 5 years of searching to find the 24 bit that was up to standards. 

If the price is'nt a problem have a look at ayon products.......absolutely magic

That thing looks better suited for playing Laserdiscs than CDs!

Compare any direct data cd output, upsample it to 192/24 or better, convert it, then observe if you hear any difference between them.  You just might save yourself a lot trouble and money. 

twodolphins  No question about it, the EAR Acute sounds analog like the way you described it.  I started hoarding CDs even from the 1980s once I bought the Acute in 2006.  So easy to listen to.  However, 2019, I heard the COS Engineering DAC D2v which has superior resolution without giving up the tonal balance so I replaced my Acute.  I am probably going to move up to the D1.  DACs have improved to the point where LPs and CDs similarly mastered will sound similar.  With 7,000 CDs now, I appreciate them (I hated them in the 1980s and early 90s-it was the players I owned like the Muse Signature 9).   Unfortunately, in the 1980s, I didn't know about the Kyocera 310 and 410 which were extremely analog like sounding with tepid deep bass.  That was a great early CD player.