Looking To Upgrade to a new CD Transport

I had a great cd transport and it looked smashing. But it stopped working after 5 years. As well as the same company's DAC. Both stopped working after 5 years. I can't name it because this post will be taken off. Great while they worked but they were not in for the lang haul.

If only this company spent 90% of their advertising on the long term quality of their product. For the short term they are great. Sorry for the unasked for rant but I spent a fortune on repairs and it was pointless.

I now have a Jay's Audio which I like very much but with an extra 5k I could probably have done better. I just did not have the extra 5k.

@kjl1065 , I have been using a Nuprime CDT 10 for the past two and a half years. It has an AES/EBU output (among several others), is very well built and performs exceptionally well.  Some of the outputs are galvanically isolated and it offers upsampling to high resolution and DSD specs. I have not had any issues with it and highly recommended it at 1/2 of your stated budget. You should check it out: 

https://nuprimeaudio.com/product/cdt-10/

Also, I do not follow your comments about possibly needing a CD transport with an AES/ EBU input. What digital information would you want to send to a CD transport whose only purpose is to read the bits off the CD you're playing and transmit that to the DAC?  As to which digital output provides the best sound, you'll have to judge that for yourself based on the transport, cable and DAC.

@kjl1065 

FYI, Jay's transports have excellent clocks. 

I'm all in with the SHANLING ET-3 recommendation...I liked it so much that I purchased the SHANLING ONIX SACD/CD TRANSPORT...probably the last transport I will ever need.