Starting over

o Oppo DV-980H ($169)
o Onkyo A-9555 Integrated amp ($400 for warranteed B-stock at accessories4less.com)
o PS Audio Image 25 speakers ($479 available here)

You will be surprised:

The PSBs have a smooth linearity that many, many very expensive speakers can't (or won't) achieve.

The Oppo is smooth and musical and plays every imaginable audio format. If times get better, keep it and run it into a Benchmark DAC1.

The last component you will outgrow is the Onkyo. After 150 hrs of break-in its sound is reminiscent of a multi-thousand-dollar stack of boo-teek components.

Hifisoundguy, given your previous long threads about putting plumber's tape on the body of a protection fuse for improved sound, and extolling the virtues of the Clever Little Clock (both extreme examples of far out subjective tweakery), punctuated by sporadic forays into Bose products (the epitome of mass marketing audio crap to an uninformed buying public, and the nemesis of the high end), I question your sincerity.

Like a plastic boom box with $2 Rat Shack quality drivers in it marketed at the audacious price of $1079 belongs in this discussion? Puh-leeeeze.