Is the Simaudio Moon Eclipse good value? Help

I agree with JMc. I have had excellent luck with buying expensive and well reviewed gear from yesteryear. You get what you pay for IME.

I have the Nova in my stash and it is an excellent Redbook player. I can imagine the Eclipse being even better. At that price, I can't see you losing money if you don't like it.

Value-wise at $1k I'd say it's worth the gamble. That's actually a very good price imo depending on the condition.

A lot of the performance of the Eclipse will be about synergy, (impedance match? or mismatch?) with the other electronics in your system. For instance, I used to have the Simaudio Nova many systems ago and eventually sold it because it wasn't performing (sounding) like I wanted. It's a quality cdp, but did not match well in my system. I'd like to hear how it would have performed as I changed gear along the years. You never know... It may have performed better with other gear I owned later. So sonically, the Eclipse will be a gamble; you won't know until you put it in your system.
Unfortunately, buying quality gear, current or older, does not guarantee quality sound.

Thank you for all the feedback. Perhaps some additional information would be of value: My 'plan' is to put together a used system comprising of the Simaudio Moon Eclipse, Simaudio i5 integrated amp or YBA Integre DT integrated, and Totem Sttaf or Hawk speakers. I've not been able to hear the system so I'm counting on my internet research to draw some conclusions regarding synergy. Again, any and all feedback is welcome.

Thank you for all the feedback. Perhaps some additional information would be of value: My 'plan' is to put together a used system comprising of the Simaudio Moon Eclipse, Simaudio i5 integrated amp or YBA Integre DT integrated, and Totem Sttaf or Hawk speakers. I've not been able to hear the system so I'm counting on my internet research to draw some conclusions regarding synergy. Again, any and all feedback is welcome.