Advice for a choice

@winnardt:
Marantz is still a fine brand. No compromise as yet in quality as part of Sound United. I have a cd6006 and it represents excellent value. While there are certainly better players, a 10x cost factor was not worth the small improvement. It interfaces extremely well with the other components in my system, but may not in another.

I was a Yamaha fan for both home and pro use for decades, but don't find much to get excited about these days in the components I have heard. YMMV

An HT amp has no place in a HiFi.

Not so on Marantz. I've examined their schematics. They pay very close attention to important details.

Many of their products use op-amps made from discrete components designed for the purpose rather than generic OTS parts that require far too much feedback.

They also pay particular attention to power supplies. Instead of generic 7xxx regulators which have HORRIBLE impedance curves, they use well designed purpose built circuits.

IMO, Parasound and ARCAM are nice but over-rated. I found the Parasound [?model?] to vary a fair bit over temperature as the heatsink bias temperature coefficient was not well matched to the driver circuitry.