new cd player for $1500.00?

You might want to check out a modded Sony dvp-ns900v by TRL for less than $1500. I just got mine and the results are stunning. It just blew away my modded Phillips SACD 1000 in every aspects.

watch for the new Cambridge Audio 840c . . .

ditto the recommendation on a current mod unit. TRL, VSE, Modwright. Check the classifieds, or just send a used recommended unit to any of these top modders.

vsei (don't know about the other modders) even gives a 30-day money back guarantee. If you don't like the sound of your modded sony, you send it back, they remove the mods and send your machine back in its original state. Only catch is, you have to pay for shipping both ways, which in most cases will total no more than $100, but that's not a high price to pay compared to the price of the mods (~$1500 for level 5 unbalanced, quite a bit more for balanced level 5, and less for levels 1-4). I was going to go with Modwright until I found out about the above guarantee, but as yet I haven't sent my sony 9000es anywhere.

you'll love the VSE mod, it's completely satisfying...