is there a best music player on the computer?

ok, jPlay it is.
I'll buy a HP laptop with win7/64-bit, i5 2.4GHz processor, 80GB SSD, 750GB hard drive, and 6GB DDR3.

How best to optimize jPlay? Upgrade RAM to 16GB? Do I store CDs and hi-rez files on the HD or SSD?? Or is the SSD better served as the buffer? Which USB port: Super Speed 3.0? Ideas?

Sorry, just a newbie here looking for help or a good link!

Can J Play run under Microsoft HomeServer OS? If not, what recommendation for that OS? It is a dedicated music server so I don't imagine that something that runs in "hibernation mode" would be a problem. Please be gentle on the geek-talk. My IT consultant (read my son) is away at law school ;-)

Does Photoshop crop a photo better than Paint Shop Pro?
Does Nero burn a CD better than Burrrn?
I've used WMP, VLC, Foobar, MediaMonkey and others, and from my experience no media player sounds better (or worse) than any other media player. Better features...yes. Better sound....no.

Danoroo - I respectfully disagree. Have you tried Jplayer? I'd suggest those that are skeptical download the free trial software and judge based on your own ears. If you don't think it improves the sound in your system - don't buy the full program. No harm, no foul.

What is different about JPlay's design is that the program is designed to minimize your computer's hardware and software interruptions when using the music player.

The nice thing about evaluating music players is that all of us can do it via free trial software. Over the last few days I compared players from mediamonkey,JRiver and JPlay. I had no vested interest in the outcome and clearly preferred JPlay.

I have had the trial version of JPlay downloaded for a couple of weeks. I use a Win 7 64 bit, 6gb ram, I run foobar and Jplay. Before JPlay, I had my Laptop as optimized as I could, shutting down all non pertinent software. At first I had a problem with it running slow and distorted most of the time. I was outputting Wasapi, once I switched to Kernal streaming, most problems ended. When I play Hi Res files, if the buffer is set too low, it will still sound distorted, but I can usually just up the buffer and it plays fine. If I understand JPlay, It pulls the files out of foobar, Jriver, etc and in hybernation mode, bypasses all functions and runs completely off of ram. I still get very good performance out of Hybernation mode, but you can hear the difference going to Hybernation.
I would relate the sound quality difference of using a good 14 gauge copper lamp cord as speaker cable to upgrading to a top quality cable. Tighter, more focused, more detail... you got it.