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Charles Tony said: “copy it to hard drive, rip it, play the ripped copy, delete the ripped copy and return the borrowed CD (in that precise order)†What! Just to play a borrowed CD? No, you just stick it in your CD transport . Oh sorry, no you can’t if you bought a single-input DAC. “It is, frankly, none of an artist's business what equipment is used to play his work.†I agree with you there, but it is the artist’s business if you deprive him of royalty (a living) by illegally ripping borrowed CDs and retaining the copies. “There should be a law that any product which sells more than a very limited number of copies (say 100) must be continuously offered to all comers (e.g. via the Internet) or else the copyright is forfeit.†Now that really is Big Brother. Why should an artist be forced to sell his wares on the Internet – or worse still, give them away on the Internet? It’s his property and he has a right to choose how, where and when to sell it, or when to withdraw it from sale. “the "Copyright Industry" takes money that should be going to creative artists and spreads it around for nefarious purposes, including payments to corrupt politicians.†Twaddle – the “Copyright Industry†(as far as it relates to musical artists) is there to SUPPORT, not to rip off artists. Of course there’s a cost, but any association who’s aim is to protect and support its members has a subscription and uses its funds as its members direct – no different from a Trade Union or a Hi-Fi Industry trade association for example. “computer systems and networks, are natural copying machines.†Precisely – that’s why copyright protection and prosecution of those who rip off musicians is to be aplauded. Now Charles – if you support the illegal copying of artists’ material and depriving them of revenue, come out and say it. Your latest product is likely to encourage such activity as suggested by respondants to this thread. The original poster was asking about the new Ayre DAC used with a CD Transport (he’s hoping to find one with a USB output) and a Mac computer. My contribution was to point out to him and any other interested reader that the Ayre was not a products designed for anything other that a single USB input. It is therefore possibly not ideal for the original poster, or anyone else who might now or in the foresseable future require more than a single digital source. I gave examples of CD transport, radio tuner, MP3 player, TV audio, Sky box, etc. I suggested that a manufacturer offering such a limited-use product was short-sighted and that customers buying one are condemning themselves to listening to nothing other than the music they can obtain from a single computer with no option for other existing sources or future developments in the audio industry. Also that those Ayre DAC buyers who are content listening to nothing but a single computer source are still required to keep in their systems that most unnecessary piece of equipment (in this day and age) - the analogue preamp. Peter PS If a Manufacturer puts his head above the proverbial parapet, he must expect to be sniped at from time to time. I’ve said nothing against the new Ayre DAC except to draw potential buyers to it's irredemably limited functionality - that's surely one of the purposes of forums such as this.
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