In Reply to: LONG LIVE THE CD!!! posted by chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com on May 15, 2007 at 12:04:54:
The memory player is pure, 100% snake oil marketed to suckers. A glance at their promotional material shows that they either don't have the slightest idea what they're talking about (see what they say about jitter) or they're deliberately obscuring it to make it sound like something worth buying.With a $30 CD-ROM my computer can make bit-perfect rips on nearly any CDs (badly scratched disks are an exception). I can verify this with accuraterip, which compares my rips against an online database. So my rips (and everyone elses that uses decent ripping software) are 100% perfect - every bit is correct. No need for a $10,000 memory player. Once the rip is made I can play it out using any number of devices - my favorite is the squeezebox. Now maybe the DAC or analogue stage in the memory player is good quality, but that's not what they're marketing the thing on (and if that's the issue, I can plug the SB digital out into any DAC, or buy a Transporter). So for less than $300 I get everything the memory player can do, only much more convenient and versatile.
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Follow Ups
- Re: LONG LIVE THE CD!!! - truthseekerprime 08:24:54 05/16/07 (7)
- "The memory player is pure, 100% snake oil marketed to suckers." Pity. - clarkjohnsen 09:57:25 05/16/07 (6)
- read their white paper then - truthseekerprime 11:43:06 05/16/07 (5)
- Re: read their white paper then - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 12:42:18 05/16/07 (0)
- "This... is total nonsense." It's all back to you, and what you think, again. Some "seeker"! nt - clarkjohnsen 12:09:34 05/16/07 (3)
- huh? - truthseekerprime 12:20:12 05/16/07 (2)
- "...but I don't think you are." Always what *you* think. And wrong every time! nt - clarkjohnsen 12:30:44 05/16/07 (1)
- Umm... yeah, obviously my posts are about what *I* think. - truthseekerprime 12:42:34 05/16/07 (0)