OK, I thought about all those options. Because my Escipse setup only has one standard RCA input, which right now is being used for the CD player, and three digital, I cant run both the RIO and the CD player at the same time without the splitter you talked about. Eclipse did make a CD player with Toslink output for use with this setup but finding one is hard and affording it when you do is next it imposable, LOL. I am guessing that the best way out of this is to just spring for the digital out board for my Rio. Any input on how that things works and sounds??