Have your say & ask the experts

JohnDuncan:

"It claims that a CD recorded onto a hard disk can achieve a higher quality than one played on a CD player."

See? See? I always said Ivor was a genius.

Though that was actually the case, as I recall, with CD/HDD recorders from Pioneer and Yamaha several years back.... 

[EDIT - beaten to it!] 

please educate me how is that ever possible?

When are they going to start putting larger capacity SSD's into these gizmos instead of old-tech hard-drives with all those nasty moving parts (and noise).

also what about fans/cooling etc surely this must have an effect of the process

anyone spending an afternoon uploading music on to a computer after an hour or so the discs are coming out red hot and your computer is vibrating across your desk (little exagerated but you get my meaning) 

jetjohnson:

Mebbe's it's just me but I don't know of ONE single friend or work colleague who streams music files ...many play files on their pc (as I do via a wired connection to my hifi) ....many have Mp3 players ..all have CD players (inc a couple of hifi minded folk who run NAIM based systems) so I reckon streaming music is miles away from being a main"stream" hobby (sorry) but mebbe's Linn never had the average consumer in mind anyway?

Even I stream these days and I'm a Tricerotops.

I do use a CDP far more tho'.

So what about Blu-Ray & DVD?

Linn already make a couple of multi format (CD,SACD,DVD) players so are they going to dump those too?

If instead, they make a new range of multi-format machines that play Blu-Ray, then they will play DVDs and CDs too.

Maybe Linn has had a sex change and is now called Dave.

Andrew Everard:

So it's only going to stream endless Top Gear repeats in the future?

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