In article , Mike Fleming
wrote:
In article , Jim Lesurf
writes:

In article
,
D.M. Procida wrote:
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?

It plays a CD. Useful for people that have them and either can't, or
don't, want to have to rip them all, etc. Given this, up to them to
decide which one they prefer, I assume.

Isn't that what the "cheap transport" is for?

Depends on what you mean by "for". :-)

If someone simply wants a box that plays Audio CDs and outputs analogue
stereo, then a CD Player is what they'd probably prefer.

Jim

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