I've bin and gone and done it – the aged Rotel DVD player is bound to the classifieds to make way for.... ...Sony's flagship DVD/SACD player – the 999ES model. I've been lusting after one for ages and now HiFiBitZ have started knocking them out for £499.99 (rrp £1K, street price £750), I could resist no longer. The only fly in the ointment is that I don't (yet) have a 5.1 bypass on my processor so I'll be limited to stereo SACD for now – but then stereo rules on this forum so no worries! What will be an interesting comparison will be CD via the Sony's DACs vs CD via the Tag's DACs vs stereo SACD. The only remaining issue explaining to 'er indoors why I've bought a new player when the old one ain't broken. Matt.