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New Transport Approach

With never-ending advances in technology and tumbling prices, I wonder if any high-end audio CD player manufacturer is considering an approach such as this - populate the player with 700 megabytes of RAM and pre-read the whole CD into RAM. We know this is completely reliable (or else our beloved MS Office wouldn't work). Then the whole transport system could be shut down, eliminating any concerns about mechanical or electrical noise, and the "CD" could be played back straight from RAM through the DAC. It would seem like this would reduce or eliminate jitter completely. There would be an "initialization" time penalty, but I would think for the high-end market, that wouldn't be a huge deal. Any thoughts? -Kirk
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WOW! That's original. I like it. I make my living using Adobe Photoshop and greatly appreciate having the luxury of a one gig of RAM. It speeds up all functions greatly and reduces the need of constant writes to a hard drive.

Would there have to be any moving parts at all once the CD's information is stored in RAM?
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