kapricon

I am currently streaming wifi from Aiport Express to dac with iTunes and Remote to control. It's a wonderfully simple and cheap solution to stream music around. I did have some dropouts before but it turned out to be a faulty optical cable. Now I want to run a second system but with the new AppleTV with at a lower price, I wonder if Apple will drop the price of AE or just discontinue it.

Oh yes, I went Borders few weeks ago. The classical section, to me, and I think actually is, packing up...... sad

I was at Borders yesterday and I think the classical section may indeed have been dispensed with. HMV remains the only decent place left for this genre. I think online is the way to go from here on though.

You can get the Oppo here via mass order:

http://www.xtremeplace.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=43789.60

You may want to consider the Oppo universal player which falls into your budget as well. It has received uniformly good reviews and a unit I heard at a friend's place was good, especially from SACD.

I had a Marantz 5001 about a year ago for my secondary room setup and it just didn't sound right for me. Lacking at both frequency extremes. Finally settled on an NAD which I thought was much better.