BBIBH,

You say my CD player is the component to change; how godd of a player is this in your opinion? I paid $300.00 for it.
I do enjoy the feature of playing random tracks from 6 discs, but if I would get better sound quality from a single disc unit, I would get one. Can you give me two or three brand/model #'s of players that would give me a very noticable improvement in sound quality? My budget max. is 500.00 to $800.00.
You talked about "aiming higher than the NAD or Rotel Amps", does this apply to a cd player also? If I have to spend over a grand to get any noticable difference, I may have to live with what I have for a while?

It always comes down to,"how much is it gonna cost me"? :-)

Thanks Again
Danny