why a 75 dollar blue ray smokes all 2k CD players and any turntable???

I'll never forget a 1987 demo of a cheap CD player with an Oxford Acoustics table with Air Tangent arm and Koetsu Rosewood, a Radford tube amp (IIRC) with $60 Wharfedale Diamonds. Night and day. The relatively expensive turntable made the speakers light up. Harpsicord music. We thought it was a trick.  

You're getting some things confused he said as long as you're using a decent SS amp and cable you will notice little to no audible difference into the same speakers. The other part was you would notice no difference between a $2000 CD transport and a basic BD player, I agree if they are both used with the same DAC. I understand most don't agree with this but technology has made most components interchangeable except for the speakers. Your playback chain is only as good as the piece that produces the most distorion and nowadays that's speakers by a pretty good margin. Not to say there are amps and DACs, transports etc.. that are worse than a speaker the Border Patrol DAC comes to mind and a number of tube components. 

There will always be Chintziphiles.  

The Naysayers’ religion doesn’t demand one puncture their eardrums, prior to baptism and membership (yet).            They just encourage the practice, to prevent back-sliding.      At some point, they’ll probably incorporate Myringa-Mohels, to simply slice them away, as a sign of the covenant.

Specs are all that matter.  Forget about actually listening.  Doh!