Thanks Gonk.

When you say either of the Oppo players will be fine for the audio since that is more important to me than video, I assume you are talking about the 981HD or the 970HD as the 971 doesn't support SACD.

If HDMI only isn't a problem, would the 981HD be the way to go to get a great audio CD sound because as I mentioned I listen to CD's 85% of the time as compared to movies. I will be putting an HDMI to DVI converter to plug it into the 1070 and either coax or optic cable for the audio as you discussed.

Thanks again.