Thanks everyone for your input. This will give me something to think about. Lapierre - My system is pretty simple. I have the digital out of a Marantz 9600 universal player feeding a Benchmark DAC-1 Pre, and my speakers are the original Ultima Salons. I'm thinking my next step will be to replace the Benchmark with a Deqx preamp/processor, but that is a year or two away.
