Agree with Ke1, the lastest quality CD and DVD/CD players have 20dB better S/N (that's 100 times less noise) and cost between $300 and $700. The CD-80's chipset was one of the best in it's day, but probably even your car's factory-installed CD player has a far superior D/A converter. Besides, the analog output buffer of the CD-80 was not the same quality as the transport or the D/A chipset, hence the high distortion figures.
