Solid state recorders

I don't have any experience with that recorder and am basing these observations only on reading the specs.

I don't think sound quality would be an issue but there are some other things to think about.

One is cost. From what I can tell it uses only Compact Flash cards or microdrives as the storage medium. You can get a 32 Gb Compact Flash card for around $100 dollars these days and if you're going to use an uncompressed format that means each card would hold 60 to 80 CD's worth of music. That means it would cost the same to store 80 CD's as if you bought a 1TB external hard drive for a music server that would store more than 1,500 CD's.

A second thing is the interface. You'd want to be sure it was as easy to find and play the cut you want as is possible with a CD player.

Third is the issue of cataloging. How will you know which CD's are on which Compact Flash cards and how easy is it to update it? Maybe there's a music management application with the device that works for a large music collection but I couldn't tell from the description.

I would think a PC or Mac based music server would give you all the advantages of this device without the disadvantages.

Yes, flash memory storage is being used more and more widely and has big advantages over hard drives. It's silent, uses much less power and is less prone to mechanical failure. For now, though, it's a lot more expensive per megabyte and uncompressed music takes up a lot of space.

In the iPod line, all the units up to 64 Gb have flash memory but the biggest one, the 120 Gb Classic, still uses a hard drive.