Update: cd player is back and working again. I believe it was more than just a blown resistor, but have no more details than that. I suspect that the transport has been changed, as it's even quieter than before (which was in turn quieter than the original one supplied in the player). Only problem so far is that I took the opportunity to upgrade my remote (which involves an internal change which has been done) but haven't got the new remote yet, so I'm reduced to getting up offa mah seat to change tracks, etc.
SOnically, it's still burning in (I think they changed a circuit board) but was sounding very fine indeed last night.
Big sigh of relief, even if it did take about a month to get repaired...
Also a big thumbs up to the UK distributor, Reson UK, for doing this FOC even though it was out of warranty.
John