Gonk, I think I understand how the market would frown on a single purpose player but it just seems a waste to have a CD player in a stereo setup that has a ton of video capability that will never really be tapped. My original thought was whether oppo would dip their toes in the audio-only given they are marketing video players both with and without high end audio. We'll have to see if the 93 and 95(?) make a number of 83SE's available on the used market as folks look to upgrade and then I might be able to justify adding a used 83SE to my stereo setup.