In Reply to: Re: Absolutely no jitter CDPs? posted by Daniel on May 21, 2003 at 04:13:55:
the Meridian approach sounds cute, but over $2500?The mecahnisms that let you do this cost $25, a memory buffer to hold ALL of the CD's data and then some probably costs $100
What's so expensive about the software? EAC (a freeware CD copy program) can do all this as well, but not in real-time of the CD does have read issues (it reads some sectors up to 50 times to make sure it gets the best extraction)
Playing a WAV file from a computer hard drive is a no-jitter issue - so why not just build a PC to do all this, run it through the SPDIF out and plug it into a fancy DAC?
Combining all this in a turnkey little box seems to be where the markup comes in, but hey - you can do this at home with your obsolete PC - all it needs is really large hard drives to store your favorite CDs in no-jitter WAV format.
I guess it is the convenience factor, since a PC will most likely have drive noise and fans humming - keeping your playback device in another room is a pain (but not impossible with a long SPDIF cord and a laptop in the listening room to remote control the "audio server"
ah - geek stuff :)
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