Good to see you've found a discerning listener to assist you. That will help a lot. In addition to lending you his ear, Shokhead also offers some excellent advice in suggesting those Denon players. I really hadn't looked at prices in a couple of months and was shocked to see how much they have dropped with the new line. Shokhead suggests splitting your receiver budget to add a Denon DVD player. Given the prices, I think this is better than my advice to use a cheap player with a better receiver.

The DVD players he suggests are equipped with better Burr-Brown DACs which you would use in place of the ones in the receiver. Better still, they are also equipped with Faroudja deinterlacers that do a superior job of scaling video to HDTVs. So in addition to better sound, you could also wind up with better picture quality from your DVDs. Both are five disk changers. You may also wish to consider the single disk DVD-1910 with a suggested list of just $269 depending on your needs.