I have a NAD T-532 DVD/CD player($500), and the specs are listed as: 24 bit/96 kHz Crystal DAC & Burr Brown Op-amps.

How much improvement would I get if I bought a dedicated CD player($1000-1300), with 24 bit/192 kHz; with or without 8x upsampling?

This would be the last piece of my system to upgrade, I'm just trying to decide if it would be worth the expense.

I have a Sunfire True Subwoofer MKIV

www.sunfire.com/pdf/True%20Subwoofer%20MKIV%20Manual.pdf

and a McIntosh amp MA6850

www.berners.ch/McIntosh/Downloads/MA6850_own.pdf

I cannot figuure out how the subwoofer connects to the amp.

TheEntryLevel-ML-21799-ML-

As someone who is relatively new to upscale hi-fi and loving my new system, I have to ask when is the amount of $$ invested payback with less returns.

I just received my latest copy of Stereophile and went to the web and looked at some speakers that were over $20K (Martin Logan's), a CD player $17K and an integrated amplifier for $30K. I guess if you have the money more power to you but is it worth investing that much money for hi-fi, I mean does it make you music sound THAT much better?

TheEntryLevel-ML-21789-ML-

Well it's been close to two months since I upgraded to an Arcam Solo and Paradigm 100 speakers and listening to hi-fi I have found that some CD's sound really great while other sound terrible. That is you can tell if the recordings are good, average or poor.

I ordered some XRCD's and they sound excellent but some of my older CD's, especially classic rock, just sound compressed to the point that I can't listen to them anymore.

Is this what others who have upgraded their systems have found as well?