HT Components-would appreciate thoughts

So far so good looks like to me. Is the DVD/CD the only thing outstanding? What's the budget on the pieces MIA? Not an expert on the SP1 (or anything else either) but its agood one for sure. You already have it? Don't know if it has multi-region function.

The hotrod DVD/CD player is of course the Camelot Roundtable (assuming the Ayre is out of the question) see camelottech website which will steer you to a home theater review site containing a DVD player shootout where this unit smunched everything in sight. Also try the Theta models David and Carmen. Arcam has a reasonable unit with excellent performance. Pioneer and Sony have fairly nice units as well. I am sort of reluctnant to say anything further w/o some more info. Is SACD an issue? assuming you have the SP1, do you also need a DVD/CDP that does SACD? Does the SP1 have 5.1 inputs for the SACD? If so, that changes everything. Need just a little more.

Snooker, I don't have one-yet anyway. I AM going to get one ASAP. I spoke to one member who has one and said it was all what it is purported to be. It does not, and never will handle SACD, but the video is the best and the DACS are really great, plus it upsamples everything to 24/96. Go to the candystore, audioadvisor.com, and look at the thing. So good. I will have to figure something else out for SACD, should I deem it necessary, as my pre/pro does not have 5.1 ch. inputs. I'm thinking about selling a kidney to get one sooner.

Snooker, you are my new hero. I wish I could do that right now. Please, please, please, say what you think once you feel you can. Either on the site, or to me off-thread. I'm gettin one like I said, but am into bein' teased until I do. I would force the issue and just throw down for one, but marital relations and all. To not do so amounts to the single largest exercise of dicipline I can recall imposing upon myself for a long time. It is a daily struggle; I am super-jealous.
Chris