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Your pick of CD player....
what about a dac? something like bel canto dac2 for example. its in your price range. I have it and really like it. very musical. you can sell your jolida and get this dac and pick up a sony s7700 on e-bay to use as a transport. pretty good combo.... 
Region Free DVD Players.
philips dvp642 - $60.00 at circuit city. great player. 
Marantz 8260 CD/SACD
send it. they may upgrade software or whatever it is they do, to bring it up to date 
Marantz 8260 CD/SACD
I know people who use cleaning cds on 8260 without problems. if the cleaning CD will send the laser out of allignment, what would happen to this unit during shipment? 
Power cable hierarchy for components
don't forget there are PCs made specially for digital components 
Marantz 8260 CD/SACD
clean it using cleanning cd, you know, something like maxell. then it should be better 
what's wrong Arcam FMJ cd33?
CD33 is discontinued as far as I know. The new model is CD36. http://www.arcam.co.uk/prod_fmj_CD36_intro.cfm 
Best All-Around $300 PCs?
what is the cord for? that will help people give you a recommendation 
Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue?
Vertigo, by the way, I think you should put the tweeter grilles back on. These tweeters are designed to be used with the grilles on, otherwise, I think the dispersion of high frequencies may not be what B&W intended. Just my opinion. I think t... 
Stable component rack
I really appreciate your responses. From what I've been reading, for the past few days, on the component racks, I think I am leaning towards steel racks. Something more rigid than Archetype. Unfortunately these are much more expensive, so I will h... 
Great Copper Cables?
I would suggest Acoustic Zen either Satori or Hologram speaker cables and their Reference MkII ICs. Matrix would be warmer, but Silver ref has better resolution without being bright and without loss of bass. Between the source and pre the one to u... 
Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue?
of course it is Larry. Welcome B&W bashers to this thread 
Stable component rack
Yioryos, thanks for the advise. I have been reading about it here on a-gon that this rack is unstable. Don't understand though how come it was not mentioned in the stereophile review. 
VT-100 MkII matches best with what preamp? HELP
how much is not the most expensive pre-amp? 
Why am I experiencing listener's fatigue?
Good to hear you were able to tame the brightness a little. I found that using Acoustic Zen Satori Shotgun speaker cables and Acoustic Zen Matrix Reference Mk.II interconnects in my system took my N803s to another level completely. Very smooth sou...