Screw Sony!!! Get a used Resolution Audio CD-50. It's about as good as a Levinson 39, and you can drive your power amp directly with it. I PROMISE IT'LL SOUND BETTER THAN ANYTHING ELSE OUT THERE!!!! (Except maybe dCS upsampling, but that's even more money, and none of those will be on the used market for a year or two.) You'll never get a linestage preamp (to use with another CD player, no matter how good that CD player is) to disappear well enough to match the CD-50. JUST WON'T HAPPEN, DUDE...
