Recommendation on hard driver based CD player

called a computer - you will probably enjoy a Macintosh since you appreciate engineering

If you don't go with the Mac as gently suggested, check out these to companies:

http://www.olive.us/p_bin/?cid=home

-or-

http://www.vrsaudiosystems.com/

I don't get the "since you appreciate engineering." How do you know that?

I made a leaping assumption that anyone who would spring $6,700 for Levinson gear - and make a point of telling us about it - was going to be buying an engineering driven solution - after all their cases aren't what those units are known for...

Then again, there is that word assumption LOL