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item wrote:

If you want to spin a CD during playback, for nostalgic reasons, then a CD player is fine. The only reason to do so, however, is to extract stored data. Computers have better ways to do this that don't invoke all the mechanical headaches of an optical drive. Keeping the whole process in solid state is very fast, very clean and sounds very good.

It has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgic reasons. Again, if you do not get it: music today is being released in solid state format. None of the major labels do it yet and it is questionably if it even happens. There are objective reasons why it might be problematic if is ever do happen. Yes, keeping the whole process in solid state is very good but with very minor exception that do not even make a dent in market share it does not exists.

item wrote:

If you've auditioned widely, you'll know that - despite losing the optical mech - most computers don't sound great compared with a CD transport. It's taken us a long time to surpass that benchmark, and be prepared to offer something for review.

I do not mind you to use my site to make lightweight marketing statements. Computers long surpassed any CD transports when they play raw uncompressed files. Computers, in my view, are nowhere when they read the CDs and store data to drives. That is why I was asking: how the files that your computer read was made? Did it come from CD? How this CD was read, which transport did it?

item wrote:

The editor took something of a risk in passing this judgment because they are quite involved with Cyrus, whereas we have never taken any advertising in their publication. He simply called it as he heard it. We offer free trials for anyone to do the same.

Who care what your editor said. He is an idiot by being editor of that publication, regardless who he is.

item wrote:

The DAT1 will play audio CDs, from a spinning optical drive, in realtime - but why would anyone want to? Far better to conduct a controlled, null-checked, rip with EAC or dBpoweramp, and play precisely the same zeros-and-ones from local, DC-filtered solid state storage.

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