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video processing capabilities (or is that a mature technology now, too?),

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:-) No it's not. There are huge differences in video processors!!!!!...................but you knew that didn't you? lol

NeverHappy - How's the sound quality of the MP3's? And what bitrate encoding are you using? I was thinking of going with FLAC or some other lossless encoding for better sound quality, but I'm curious as to what you think. MP3's would certainly save a lot of hard disk space.

Say What! NeverHappy, you worry about the brand name of your DACs, but happily compress your music into MP3s???

Yeah, that's pretty shocking!

And yes - I only use one remote to work both units. Basically, when you daisy chain the players, the second player is a slave to the first. the first player controls when and how the second one is working and can even read the cd names from the second player (if encoded or pre-labelled).

And yes, they are deep. I'm happy that someone else mentioned this. Mine are free floating on the floor behind the speakers, so it's not much of an issue, but in a rack, they might be too deep.

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Say What! NeverHappy, you worry about the brand name of your DACs, but happily compress your music into MP3s???

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Only when it's time to do some critical listening do I pay attention to what DAC's I'm running everything through. :-)

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NeverHappy - How's the sound quality of the MP3's? And what bitrate encoding are you using? I was thinking of going with FLAC or some other lossless encoding for better sound quality, but I'm curious as to what you think. MP3's would certainly save a lot of hard disk space.

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I use Exact Audio Copy with LAME and rip everything at 320. I have tried FLAC and every other one out there and everytime I go back to EAC and LAME. As for the sound quality, I could fool anyone on these boards. 99.9% of people would not be able to tell one of my MP3's from the CD.

Craig, as I've said before and as Adrien and the two Marks have indicated here, my view is that daisy-chained Sonys is the way to go.

I'm considering the Sony mega changer as well. I'm not too much of a Sony fan. However, their mega changers look very nice.
I also found this http://www.escient.com/fireballmp100.html
It might be overkill but a lot easier to manage all of my CD's.

Thanks, NeverHappy. I hadn't heard of Exact Audio Copy or LAME but I'll check them out. Also glad to hear your comments about the good audio quality of MP3's ripped at 320 (I forget if it's bps, or kbps, or whatever). I was thinking that 320 bits ought to be enough for anyone.