The CDA 9887 is at my local brick and mortar for $499 which seems kind of high, I guess I'll keep looking for the $400 mark.

What's really got me jazzed about this unit is the 24 bit Burr-Brown dac. It's the same dac that came in my denon ht receiver. This would be a major upgrade from my current HU, which has a 1 bit dac, a Sony MEX 1GP. I can really notice that mp3s are much less dynamic than old school uncompressed files, or is that a separate issue?

Anyway, soon it will be mine all mine!(insert evil diabolical laugh ending with a hacking cough here)