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Is this the future of the next CD player

Is this the future of the next CD player or some thing like it? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12497823/ http://www.olive.us/p_bin/
If it is what is the minimum cost with dac to get it to sound as good or better of a audiophile CD player.
Or would you build your own audiophile PC. If so what would be minimum cost to get audiophile results and what components would you use.
hemihorn
kana813
956 posts
 
JA gave the Olive high praise in the April issue of Stereophile.

"NOTHING beats the graphic interface of a mouse and monitor for navigating your vast library of music."

Some people don't want a a noisy PC/monitor in their listening room.

The Olives and Cambridge(it can handle external HDs or network to your PC's library of music) are just the start of these in the room devises. All those DVD recorders with HDs from the big name companies are music servers waiting to happen.

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glitch947
36 posts
 
"Some people don't want a a noisy PC/monitor in their listening room."

Since when were monitors noisy? Unless you're using a CRT, which are rapidly getting phased out by affordable and virtually silent LCD's. The solution that I'm creating for myself about the noisy PC? Remove the PC from the listening room entirely, and just connect the monitor through a long cable or a CAT5 RGB converter or similar device. Or, design or buy yourself a silent PC. Both of these solutions are completely viable even with the products out on the market today.

When I get my setup complete in the next few months (I'm currently living in a dorm about to graduate) I'll post pics of my virtual system or whatever, and it will be in my mind what future HD based systems will look like.
kana813
956 posts
 
Glitch947- A "silent PC" and LCD monitor both have power
supplies that are far from noise free. Have fun.
glitch947
36 posts
 
My LCD monitor runs completely silent. Dead silent. A PC can be located in another room as I mentioned before, or a silent PC could simply be placed out of the way, say behind a shelf or somewhere where you wouldn't even hear the roar of its silent power supply.

Even less than silent LCD monitors have these funny little things on the front called power buttons. I suppose you overlooked that feature though. I can assure you, I will have fun in my perfectly silent room. Silent except for my music, that is. I can even have fun in noisy rooms; thats right, I said it. I must be the only one here on Audiogon who can do that though. But like I said, mine's silent.
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