sandra, i can understand your reluctance to jump in to the digital world, wanting to wait for the format wars to settle out. but, you may end up tuneless for a lot of years! ;~)
meanwhile i suggest you pick up an art di/o dac for ~$122 from fullcompass.com, ship it to wayne at boldercables.com, where he'll tweak it for ~$200. then, pair it w/any cheap cd-player of your choice - i like my nad 515 5-disc changer, retailed for $500, i got it a lot less as a demo. do a search on a-gon & on the audio asylum's digital forum for di/o (or dio), for info. while i can't speak for those who have dumped their $20k digital rigs in favor of the di/o, i *can* say i'd rather listen to my set-up than a $3k resolution audio cd-50 that has received so much positive press...
also, while my experience w/solid-state amps is that digital sounds better w/a tubed preamp than run straight-in to amps, w/tubed amps, your results may be different. but, w/o a preamp, ya miss out on all the good vinyl & fm available. a quality tuner w/good stations will *really* amaze you, thru your system, if you have never heard it. and even a half-decent vinyl set-up will blow almost *any* digital set-up away, imho...
doug s.
