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@Airhead and @withered_preacher so a couple of weeks later and my dad is super impressed with the Marantz cd5005. It has really changed the sound of the system. He was using my old NAD player... That always sounded a little brittle and confused. The Marantz is both smooth, yet clear and and to render the details. He's using the inbuilt DAC and connected to amp via RCA. Very happy.
Was gonna say, Marantz seems to be a leader in the nice price audio game these days.