Well one thing I do notice is that all cd and dvd players sound slightly
different. Maybe its noise that cannot be coped with by the error checking
or poor reading of the disk, I have no idea, but I will say that some
players sound different, but some that sound good are not always the
expensive ones. also as you say modern av stuff often has the choice of
processing in the player or via d/a in the amp, and then you also hear
differences.
I don't think everyone has it all figured out yet.
I'm not sure how long it will be before lossless audio is a common thing
supplied on solid state media or streamed or via download either. Again I
hear differences so maybe somewhere along the line things are not as error
free as one might expect.

Brian

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Now that the contents of a CD can be held in RAM, never mind in other
cheaper and still very fast digital storage, what does an expensive CD
player offer that a cheap transport and a decent digital-to-analog
converter cannot?

If DAC products can buffer seconds' or even minutes' worth of data, and
can stream it out to the actual DAC circuitry with GHz precision, there
doesn't seem to be much need any more for costly CD players.

Am I missing something?

Daniele