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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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I've been holding off buying a CD/DVD player for this very reason: I expect this read-from-memory to be about a year from now.

Meridian does do the seminal portion of this concept: its FIFO buffering through multiple processors allows multiple reads of the source, then actually pushes the music through the preamp from ROM. Perhaps, this is why they recently moved from a standard CD Transport to a computer CD mechanism.

Regardless of why; to me the when is more the matter. My recommendation is to NOT upgrade your CD/DVD player until this technology is here: it is an idea waiting to happen.
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