Came home on Friday night and decided to put some music on. 10mins in, my amp decided it had enough and lost the right hand channel. Ok my amp is 18years old (Pioneer A400) so I guess it had to pack up sooner rather than later. What has actually happened is the volume control needs stripping down and cleaning, I can do it myself, I've done it once before about 10 years ago but not got the time right now. So, last year I bought a Cambridge Audio 740a and a 640p phono stage, I didn't like the sound of this at first so I relegated it to the spare room. But now it is back in the HiFi rack connected to my B&W 606S2's bi-wired with QED XT silver anniversary cable mounted on Custom Design 300 stands. I'm going to run it in to see if the upper frequencies smooth out after a while. Next this happens, Saturday night, the CD player has decided to throw a wobbly and now Playsssss CD'sssss reallllllllyyyy Slowwwllllllllyyyyyyyyy and has started wowing really badly. OK this is an old CD player aswell, (Marantz CD63SE) this machine is about 12 years old and has never failed once untill now. So I've been having a bit of a HiFi nightmare this weekend, I never expected 2 units to fail at the same time. I suppose I'm going to have to buy a new CD player but funds are extremely tight at the moment. Can anyone recommend a good CD Player thats going to work well with the cambridge Audio amp and isn't going to cause me to re-mortgage my house to pay for? I listen to a wide range of music from Classical to Rock and somewhere in between. I like an open and punchy sound but want a lot of detail retrieval, I found the Marantz CD63SE sounded a little restrained with the CA 740a. Thanks Guys.