I spoke to a local dealer today, and I can get that unit for $329.00 in Canadian dollars. Man, that is cheap. Salesman said that the only donwside is that they are slow to change discs.
As far as old being good as new, I don't think so. I just found my old manual. The new Onkyo beats the old in every possible way, and is dirt cheap. Some examples:
1) two times oversampling VS 128
2) frequency response has gone from 20 to 20K to 5 to 20K
3) Power consumption has gone from 15 to 10 watts
4) THD has gone from .03 to .005
Small changes granted, but there should be some improvement in sound.
Shane D
