Worst CD player

" I'm not sure what price gas to do with sound quality " Keep listening, you will.

Knghifi. The ARC DAC8 probably would be a crappy CD player since it's not a CD player, but it's the best DAC ever made. Maybe you should reconsider posting until you learn a little bit about audio.

" The is a good chance I have been listening longer than you ".
That may be true , but one thing I have learned in thirty five years of upgrading, is that each upgrade I've done has been a true upgrade, not a step sideways and each upgrade has unfortunately been more costly than the previous one. Is it like live music ? of coarse not, but it's a lot closer and it's become so good I'm continually amazed and engulfed in it's magic, something I couldn't say with less costly systems.
You can buy love when it comes to audio. But you won't buy it by just throwing money at it. It requires a good ear, allot of listening ( in your own system ), some research and much soul searching.

Upscale equipment doesn't automatically equate to superior sound, but the changes of upscale equipment sounding better are many times greater. One place you don't want to cut corners is a digital source, or any source for that matter. Some of the early CD players were pretty much unlistenable.

Yeah I remember the M.F. KW CD player, a local dealer was really on me to purchase there demo player. I liked the sound of the player but didn't care for the company's flavor of the month attitude. They would just introduce the latest greatest player and within a year it was replaced by something supposedly far better. The way I looked at it, if they spent considerable time, money and resources on a piece of equipment it should not be trashed in favor of something new that must have been developed quickly.