Afternoon, I've recently caught the upgrade bug and have so far purchased a Brio R and an RP3. I'm now looking at my CD player which is currently a Marantz CD6004. I've been looking at the Apollo R and although it doesn't get the 5 stars on here I've read some very good reviews and it's within budget (finding a cd player around the £500 mark seems a little difficult). I could probably push to something like the Audiolab 8200. My question is, and apologies if this has been asked before, am I looking in the wrong direction? Would it be better keeping the Marantz and investing in a DAC? The Arcam irDAC, Rega DAC and Audiolab M-DAC all get great write ups on here and seem well priced. Has anyone had any experiance using the Marantz with one of these DACs or similar? I use a laptop for listening to Spotify a fair bit so I guess a DAC brings the added benefit of upgrading the sound from that. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Gaz.