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Basically I am looking for a 5 disc unit. I have heard other cd units, like NAD that just sounded better to me than what I have. (using same speakers, different amp and different room). But I was more or less assuming that since some cd players cost in the thousands that there was some difference that could be heard. I wanted to move up somewhat to a better player
am I off base thinking there would be improvements?

There will be improvements (aside from build quality, I mean audible improvements) with the higher price units, if they have better DACs/processing than your current player or reciever, and you use the analog out so you take advantage of that ability. What reciever are you using? When you say different amp, was the NAD run straight to a seperate amp via analog output?

It was just the NAD t742 I believe one of their newer A?V receivers

Was the CD player a 521 or a 541? I heard the 521i through the NAD (I believe) 320BEE integrated amp through some PSB image 1B's and 5T's and the sound was awesome.
If you uprgade your cd player I would definitely recommend using the analog inputs.

It was the 521 using the t742 receiver I think
-OK I just assumed the digital was a better so analog it is