mtrycraft, you see facts are relevant to what gear you have or heard, I have the gear and the time, I tested several players on my own quality gear, and I already clearly described the results, what facts are you basing your bias on? What testing or gear, specifically, are you basing your opinions on? Go to your local hifi dealer and do some extensive listening...let me guess you use a $79 receiver and a $59 dvd player or maybe one of those mini systems you see at sears? i did say it was all relative, meaning a novice such as yourself with no use for audio goodness would be satisfied with a cheaper system like the one you own, however some people have quality gear in an office, sometimes referred to as audiophiles. I have a good friend (studio tech) who has a THX amp in his office, and you can bet there is no $59 CD player in there (and there are plenty of members here like this), but it seems you are in disbelief that quality gear or audio even exists... you think that everything sounds like your minisystem so spending money on audio is a waste... Do you think there would be a market for a $400 or $800 CD player if your $69 unit offered the same sonic qualities? Well this brings us right back to the question you did not answer in the last post.... Do you listen to much high-end gear? if so, what? not to discredit you, but you don't seem to offer much in audio but disbelief...go out to dealers and listen to some good stuff - many of the members will offer auditions of their home systems as well...

StanleyMuso, nice choice on the Marantz, I have always admired the sound and quality with their gear

Mingus,
"My current CD player is Sony CDP-361. The problem with player is once in awhile a message "No Disk" appears in the front panel. Recently it's happening more frequently" - in my experience 9/10 times the laser just needs to be cleaned, pick up a kit at rat shack, probably due for a good cleaning...