best CD player or DAC under $1000

You can get a used/demo Audio Note CD-2 for $800-1000. It's a tube output honey. Especially these days, people are unloading them to upgrade to the CD-3; I'm thinking of doing this myself. In any event, the CD-2 is smooth, sweet, and unintrusive. Jeff

YBA CD Integre, I tried them all, best player to my ears, close second was the NAD Silver series...

The Omega IV DAC from www.avahifi.com

The Ah! Tjoeb 99 is a truly awsome player for well under $1000.00 I think it is much better than the Rega Planet. You can see reviews at audioreview .com It is a smooth wonderful player with a tube output stage and You really can't go wrong.

None of this players, mentioned above, can even come close to the quality and the sound of the Linn Mimik. Ah!,Adcom will fall apart after first 3 months of use...and don't be fooled by "tube" output stage of Rega it is not what you would think of tubes...it is boring player. Sony is good and NAD is OK!