new updates in transports or are they obsolete ?

What would it cost to set-up a good hard drive based system? I am assuming that I buy an off the shelf product that I do not have to modify (or have someone who does this for me since I am incapable of doing it myself). Bob

Baddabob- If you're in the market for a transport take a look at

Sorry,

Baddabob- If you're in the market for a transport take a look at:

Stello CDT200 (Aberdeen Components has an excellent mod for
this unit)

LyngdorfAudio CD-1(does upsampling)

A PC alternative would be the new Cambridge Audio
Azur 640H music server

Steve,

I was wondering if hard drive fragmentation has ever been an issue with your set up.

I'd imagine the odds would be much lower for this happening on a system designed just for music playback versus a computer system that's constantly writing, erasing, copying and rewriting data over and over again until the files become stored in non-contiguous segments.

But even if it does get fragmented, it would be easy to repair. I was just curious if you were ever listening to Sarah Vaughn and she suddenly started going Porky Pig on you.

Dean

If you were setting up a hard drive system you should use dedicated hard drives for the music file storage. You'd start with a clean drive and fill it up by ripping CDs one at a time. Under this scenario fragmentation would never become an issue. Even if you didn't have a dedicated music storage drive playing back two channels of red book quality audio is a fairly trivial task for any 7,200 rpm hard drive. Fragmentation just isn't a real world issue for consumer type audio playback.