I'm kinda interested in more hard sonic info. Been thinking about a Squeezebox; my wife is waaayyyy into the idea of transferring our CDs to files as a space saver, but she also knows it would take an extraordinary amount of effort and some heavy storage capacity to actually accomplish that goal. Of course, I'm quite happy with the DACs in our Marantz carousel. I actually own two of them; got the second one dirt-cheap when the first was being serviced last year after an accident in our apartment (long story that has absolutely nothing to do with the Marantz's quality). Really like carousels, but for obvious reasons they're becoming dinosaurs.