pvadbx wrote:
why didn't cd manufacturers stick 20-30
megabytes of memory into their machines and rebuffer and re-clock the
bitstream to avoid all the sonic problems associated with a mechanical
transport?
Because the RedBook CD was designed in 1975 or so, when memory cost
thousands of dollars per kilobyte.
I bought my first CD player in 84 or 85.
When I bought a PC in 1990, I got 5MB of ram, and folks asked
what kind of fool I was for getting all that unusable memory.
am i missing something? why didn't manufacturures do this?
Because it would have cost too much.
And 700 MB was an inconceivable amount of storage.
Plus RedBook was invented to crush casettes, not LPs. At the time, the
record companies were worried sick about lost revenue from people
bootlegging albums onto cassettes, and recording directly from FM radio.
In the olden days, a DJ would say "Coming up, the complete Led Zepplin
IV" ablum, which meant everyone put a fresh cassette into their deck.
There are audiophiles that claim that vinyl is still vastely superior to
RedBook. It might even be true, but I don't care, records are such a
hassle, and a SqueezeBox, let alone Transporter, is so much more convenient.
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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