Best player for Poorly Recorded redbook CDs?


There is lot on the cutting edge of digital players, Meitner, APL, Esoteric, Zanden, Reimyo, and the list goes on. Most have great reviews and their own followers. The problem is we usually test this with better recorded CDs or do not actually consciously think about how well a player plays poorly recorded CDs. If I have a main player for SACDs and avg-well recorded CDs, is there a player out there that somehow makes poorly recorded CDs sound better, and better than other equipment? Note this only pertains to poorly recorded CDs...and its not about being truthful/accuracy per se...all I want is something that will improve on bad CDs. Meitner is OK at this but I wonder if other players out there (and indeed it may well be a budget player,...who knows) that specifcally do this well. Given as music lovers, we generally own our fair share of poor sounding but great music CDs, I think this is potentially quite important and can pay lots of dividends after some investigation....at least that is the hope. Now thinking about this, its also somewhat surprising that professional reviewers do not really address this aspect much. Hmmm.

Any suggestions? Do you agree with this line of thiniking?
henryhk
I guess my initial description was not clear....I want an additional player (or at least want to explore) to my Meitner that will specfically address poorly recorded CDs...for avg to well recorded ones and SACD, I am very happy w/ my Meitner set up.
& this whether they "work" or not, using cable as tone control etc is not the answer as it would chg things with my existing set up of Meitner: do not want chg cables just for the sake of poorly recorded CDs as it may worsen the perfomance of better recordings playback....the idea is "specialize" if indeed there are solutions out there.
The RealityCheckCD process and NespaPro process both help reduce the edginess of poorly recorded CDs. However, for the same investment, one could probably buy a reasonable tubed CD player like a used Eastern Electric MiniMax CD player (or $1099 new). Then, you could tailor the sound by rolling the MiniMax's 6922 tubes.

Just a thought.
How 'bout a analog sounding DAC like the Museatex Data II? Otherwise a tubed player would be nice. The Audio Research CD7 perhaps?
but don't forget out there you can find tube EQ!! check Behringer T-1951, i have one and it is most effective upgrade i have ever have. and it's cheap solution.that way you have tubes, and EQ as well.