Best Sounding CD / SACD player under 15K

I just picked up an Esoteric K-03 which is simply extraordinary.

Imho, cd drives (no matter how good) are going the way of the dodo and have now been superceded by high res music streamed from servers via AES3 and NAS over ethernet. For example, with proper buffering in the dac, streaming over ethernet does not simply 'tackle' jitter, by it's very nature it eliminates jitter altogether because the clock signal is non-existant and because the transfer method has no bandwidth problems and carries no ground. This means that the digital transmission arrives, is buffered and is converted with no jitter artifacts and no accumulated noise issues. It also means that there are essentially no limitations on the resolution of the digital file itself, at least as far as current file formats are concerned. Not even streaming via AES3 can achieve that since the clock is embedded in the digital audio data stream. Whenever it gets moved, goes through a connector, is exposed to low frequency noise or a million other things, it has the potential to induce or increase jitter.

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did you ever demo the Audio Aero LaFontaine?

No I haven't demo the audio aero Fontaine , but it's probably similar in sound like the capitole , has stars unit in it, I had my audio aero hooked to audio horizon dac sounded a lot better