Has anyone heard the Bladelius Embla?

"The Embla offer a silent system playback system without any moving mechanical parts when playing from the built-in flash memory. ... Unlike other computer based playback products the Embla is based on our proprietary audio DSP design, allowing us to completely control the timing and reading of the discs."

I have no experience with this player. I must say, though, that the claims are dubious. First, all players have a memory buffer; loading the track into flash memory is unnecessary and irrelevant. A good DAC should be able to handle the streams from the buffer. Jitter is limited by the timing in the DAC. So why is timing the reading of the disc necessary? Computer processors are powerful enough to read the discs pretty much continuously, buffer, and process the information to the DAC.

"The Embla comes preloaded with a database for album and track names and will display album art if connected to the internet with its Ethernet port."

So does Windows Media Player. It's called freedb (www.freedb.org) or Gracenote (www.gracenote.com).

By the way -- I apologize if this isn't useful -- assuming you have your music stored on a NAS in another room (so noise isn't an issue), you could buy a fanless PC with a SSD drive (flash) for a couple hundred, or a battery operated eeePC, then spend the rest of your money on the best USB DAC you could afford, for the same result. The Bladelius player retails for $9000, and aside from its "world class" DAC, the technology is rather pedestrian, in my opinion.

With a name like that how can they fail? Computer generated do you suppose?