I really like the reveiws for the 3000N on the list. As far as I can tell it plays a lot of differnet brand CDs and plays just about everything you can throw at it. Anyway I went to amazon to check for availablity and saw that they had the 2000N, at the same price, as a new item? I thought model numbers usually go up as they get newer! So what is the big difference between the three? I was going to buy the Apex 660, not readily available, or the Pioneer 343, which I heard wasn't as good, but posts here sent me towards the Daewoo brand. Also are any of them macro and region free hackable? Thanks for the help and sorry for the long post.