Thanks for the insight Jakeman. I stopped in a high end store this morning and they suggested going the better quality CD player root as well, either the Rotel 1072 or the Rega Planet. They will allow me to audition either in my home system which is the nice thing about dealing with these type of stores. Plus they know their stuff. The Rega is a few hundred dollars more but I've heard such great stuff about it I think I'll have to give it a try. They're suggestion is to hook up the player via analog and let the Rega's DAC to the D/A conversion. I'm anxious to see how it does.