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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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jared
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Great idea but I will give you one word why it would never happen-- PIRACY. If you could upload the entire disk into the machines RAM, then it wouldn't be too hard for some criminal mind to figure out how to tap into the memory to make excellent copies of the disk. All that said, maybe they could develop some type of manner of preventing this but look how successful they have been preventing piracy to date i.e. almost not at all. It is this fear of piracy that would prevent your excellent audiophile idea from becoming a reality at least in the near term

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