You are faced with one of the highest switching costs in computer audio: re-ripping CDs. It's a pain in the rear!
Not sure if you are aware iTunes is not very good in audiophile terms both for playback and ripping. I assume the Sony box you mention is the higher end DSD unit that has been much talked about. I understand that box is capable of very good sound, but of course you need to feed it good files.
Think about gradually re-ripping your CDs. The best approach I know of, and pretty future-proof so this doesn't happen again, is described in computeraudiophile.com "Guide to Ripping CDs". It's a great tutorial based on dBpoweramp. I follow it to a t and works great. In one shot, I rip the CDs to wav and flac and aiff, and the software checks online a database to confirm the copy of your CDs digitally matches other same CDs - so you know is a perfect digital copy.
I know re-ripping 700 CDs is a rather daunting task. But it's worth to do this over time and have an uncompressed library. I believe iTunes compresses everything and you don't have a way of verifying how good the copy was, let alone moving to a different software given the proprietary format.
I hope this helps despite not answering directly your question.
Cheers!
Not sure if you are aware iTunes is not very good in audiophile terms both for playback and ripping. I assume the Sony box you mention is the higher end DSD unit that has been much talked about. I understand that box is capable of very good sound, but of course you need to feed it good files.
Think about gradually re-ripping your CDs. The best approach I know of, and pretty future-proof so this doesn't happen again, is described in computeraudiophile.com "Guide to Ripping CDs". It's a great tutorial based on dBpoweramp. I follow it to a t and works great. In one shot, I rip the CDs to wav and flac and aiff, and the software checks online a database to confirm the copy of your CDs digitally matches other same CDs - so you know is a perfect digital copy.
I know re-ripping 700 CDs is a rather daunting task. But it's worth to do this over time and have an uncompressed library. I believe iTunes compresses everything and you don't have a way of verifying how good the copy was, let alone moving to a different software given the proprietary format.
I hope this helps despite not answering directly your question.
Cheers!