Hi Elberoth,
Very nice system, well thought out, great room, very nice source, there are some tweaks available for the AA player you use which take it to a much higher level of redbook cd playback ... if interested let me know and I can share my experiences.
Also I would urge you to consider swapping the NRG-5's ... they really don't do justice to that gear ... I have used the NRG-5 extensively in the past and found that their greatest strength lies in video applications ... projectors, TV's, video processors and the like.
I understand that you are not a shunyata fan, but if you ever consider the best powercords money can buy you should definitely try to audition an Anaconda Vx on the player ... it absolutely smoked ANY powercord I've ever tried against it ... I'm not exagerating ... comparisons against Audioquest NRG-5, Cardas Golden Reference, Revelation Audio Precept and Precept II, Electraglide Epiphany and Elrod Statement II were all very one sided. If you don't wish to go for shunyata pc's there are other companies out there that can offer similar performance: Elrod (in conjunction with Sound Applications Linestages), Transparent Audio (in conjunction with their powerconditioners), Electraglide, Maganan Cable (fabulous for half the price of the big names) and Revelation Audio Labs (the Precept in particular is very good bang for the buck but has some silver sonic characteristics in the highs, possibly the only drawback for my tastes).
I hope you don't take my post the wrong way ... I really think you have a fabulous system but I can see one serious obstacle in getting the real performance out ... and I just wanted to share my opinion with you.