The 1.6's are my choice as well. As a longtime owner of the 20.1's until a year or so ago, I think Maggie's are the way to go. I sold them, not because I found something better, but because I needed the money to finance a very large estate purchase of several thousand LP's and 78's. I'm making do with a much lesser system and, you know what? I kept telling myself I'd have an expensive system again by now but I'm enjoying the music so much that I haven't upgraded one piece of the hardware. To tell you the truth, when I do rebuild, my system will be a lot more like yours than it will be like what I used to own.

Since you mention CDP's, I'd have to say they are a lot like cables to me. Is there a difference? Yes. Would I bet my life on it? No. My favorite CDP is the one that navigates scratched CD's the best and my old Sony XA20-ES sails through damaged discs. The unit is 12 years old but was little used for half that time. It works wonderfully and sounds just fine.