Try the McIntosh DVD player. It won't play CDR's but for the price of something like $2,800 sound was quite good. Unfortunately I couldn't compare side by side to Cary or Meridian but I will risk saying it's in the same league as it was a good bump up in sound quality from Arcam. Not that CDP differences are all that great AND that CDP upgrades are not all that noticeable to me either.
