Just to come back to this thread, I did finally make a decision on music playback and got a Cambridge CXN v2, which I discussed in THIS THREAD. I'm really loving it. Great component, though definitely in a niche category. Reasonable price and outstanding sound quality. I've been listening to a lot more music lately, and even added a bunch to my high res collection. Now I just need to finally get the rip process figured out to get files from all my SACDs. I have a bunch of great stuff on those.
