Great, thanks! I'm actually moving house this coming weekend so everything is packed away at the moment so I'll have to wait to try it all out. I think I'll avoid upgrading the receiver just to be able to use the lossless formats though. By the sounds of it, the difference will be minimal.

By the way, I got myself confused...my cd player is a denon dvd 1400, my receiver is an AVR 1804!