WHAT ABOUT CLOCKS?

I am sure you have used a computer before. You do not need a stereo shop to help you. I am NOT computer savy. Yet I have done it. It blows cd players away. Depending on your budget there are many different routs you can take. http://www.computeraudiophile.com/ is a great place to start. This is where I bought. http://www.endpcnoise.com/cgi-bin/e/std/sku=fanless_music_server.html I will say each time I learn/figure something out, I feel fantastic. As far as movies go, already there. There is nothing like it. I often compare the best sounding vinyl I have to it's digital version. The comparrisns have become very hard to impossible to tell which is better. Why waist your money? The future is here! I do not know what you consider older, I will be 55 in june. It has been an exciting journey to this point. There really is something to these computers!

Koegz, What site(s) do you use to down load music? Is it uncompressed? What is the cost? How long does it take?

I ripped all the cd's I had owned. I buy new and used cd's from amazon and a local store "tunes" and rip them(place in computer memory). I down load from HD tracks. There are few sites with uncompressed rock music for down load. But a ton of classical and Jazz. Although I got an email from Hd tracks that something big was coming. I like owning the cd and J Rivers media center, which is the music player(organizer,library) I use, has a built in up scaler. I use flac and windows 7 professional. All I can say is down loaded and ripped cd's sound GREAT. I recently got into some blues. Keb Mo sounds fantastic ripped from cd. Obviously the better the recording the better the sound. To me it is a no brainer. I now convert my flac to mps through jrivers on to a memory stick and take it with me in the car. It is easy once you learn how. It may sound complicated but it is not. Just a different way of looking at it.

Kroez, this is the future, no doubt. I will continue to learn more. But. I still love my K02, it sounds great, works great, looks great, and, I have no regrets. Thank you for your insight.

It is a good looking unit. I am sure it sounds great. Did not say you should regret your purchase. This thread is not about owning but about a future purchase. If cd players were a stock(nasdaq) they would be a HOLD NOT a buy!