Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC

Audiooracle- I am not doubting MP's playback levels being superfine. All I want sound comparison between a well built PC with reliable software, good converters such as Emperical's and a fine dac and the MP.
I have heard the former (PC-Emperical-fine Dac) and was amazed at the playback quality on redbook. Hence are people discovering this in an MP and are going rah-rah over it? Or is the MP vastly superior when audiophiles have done a shoot out.
Alex- no disprespect to the Esoteric drives as they are works of engineering skill, an also what you make from them. My 'days of numbered' comment is also based on a cost to performance ratio.
My final request would be a comparison between the MP-PC-and the 2.5
All these components have great merit, but would any stand out way ahead of the others. Otherwise it will come down to personal likes.

Just a slightly OT question: how would playback from memory (RAM) in itself be better, as opposed to playback from a hard drive, a flash drive or whatever?

Someone forgets that in order to play _anything_ on a computer, the data must first be transferred to memory. So no matter which media you use, when it comes to actually feeding the PCM to the output device of your choice, it IS being read from RAM.

So, how would a RAM drive help?

Well I just setup my fist PC for AUDIO, the system consists of Intel Board, Core 2 Duo 2.0Ghz and EM-U 1212m soundcard, streaming music to the digital input of my Audio Aero Prestige.

The results have great;
1) The first piece of software that I tried was foobar with ASIO drives @ 44.1 in slave mode (The WORD clock used was of the Audio Aero) with this software I heard the imaging being slightly more stable and a fuller body, when comparing the sound to the transport of the player on the fly, we came to the conclusion the sound was slight more natural on the AA rather than the computer being used as a transport.

Next I tried this new player called XXHighend, installed it on my XP choose engine #1 and hit play......It bettered the AA transport!!! the sound has the ease the natural feel of the AA plus added more resolution, the image was far more stable, also the TONE was right not like in foobar where something felt a miss. From what I understand after reading about this player is that doesn't care about ASIO OR KS..... its proprietary to the way the playback takes place very similar to the Memory player.

First the WAV is read and send to the RAM and from the RAM the stream is sent out of the sound card!

Everyone must give this player a listen, I'm quite certain you will be pleased with what you hear.

Best Regards,

Satyam Bachani.

Very good news Sbfx, I'll check this out.