Redbook Comparison Esoteric and Reimyo

Teajay, thanks for your response and for the reference to the thread you started on "Reference DACS." I read the thread, and to the extent I'm able made interpretations of the opinions entered. But while the thread deals mostly with DACs, my question is about specific one box players. One box players narrow comparative evaluations in that the manufacturers have selected the transports. Open-ended questions about DACs make for more complexity in that the transports used are usually quite variable, and the quality and condition of transports will affect the performance of the DACs. (Transports are in part friction devices, and are, I would think, more difficult to evaluate than DACs.)Anyway, I am inclined to go for a one box player, and while I have not as yet heard the Reimyo and Esoteric X-01 (or the new DCS and most other recent machines), various posts (yours included) speak very highly of one or the other. Since I can't audition all (or even many) possibilities, I'm hoping that fellow hobbyists can help me narrow choices for Redbook CD players.

Tejay, thanks for your suggestion. I listen mostly to classical music, with some folk and country. My listening room is large, and there is a large opening into another room a few feet from the left speaker. Because of furniture arrangements, I usually sit about 17 feet from the speakers. The speakers are SF Amatis driven by an Accuphase A-50v and a Bat VK51 SE. All components are plugged into an Isoclean power conditioner. I presently use an Audiomeca Mephisto II (not the II x) for Redbook and a Marantz SA-1 for SACD. The interconnect to the Marantz is Cardas Golden Reference. All other interconnects are Nordost Quatro Fils. Power cords are various.

I thank all correspondents. I'll put the Accustic Arts CDP on my list. My preamp, by the way, has all balanced inputs, though one can buy adapter plugs so that single-ended cables can be used. As to phase reversal related to disparities between XLR pins 2 and 3 being hot on different connected components, many persons (I am one) really can't tell the difference. Some people, of course, can hear a difference, which is why many preamp remotes have a phase reversal switch. Further, some CD's, I'm told, are recorded out of phase to others. (This is not the same thing as having speaker drivers out of phase, a more serious sonic problem.)