You are a singular character, Hersh. You must be addicted to e-bay, otherwise there is no logical reason whatsoever to purchase a 15 year old cdp, especially when you have a perfectly good Pio installed in your rig. Naturally, you realize during the infancy of cd, all cdp's were expensive! This price discrepancy is in direct contrast to manuafacturer's understanding of how to extract the imformation from the medium (abbetted by the fact they didn't record it very well, either). Just one example is how even the most basic $50cdp includes 24 bit dac's that process at 96 or 192mhz. Basically, this is the same as buying an old IBM 80386.