I need a nice CD player

It is shame to tell my friends that I cannot play a CD normally in living room. My dumb DVD player has only one output and audio signal has to be output from TV indirectly. And I do think to play a CD nicely, it is a must to have a good CD player, with DAC and digital output for external DAC. To fit my current configuration, I need a good looking and compact CD player to work with my Elekit tube preamp and Genelec active speakers. Seems Musical Fidelity X-ray series is targeting to those users like me. But I like the appearance of V3 rather than the latest model.