[SlimDevices: Audiophiles] why didn't cd players ever re-buffer?

2006-10-12 Thread pvadbx
this is mostly a historical question, since i think traditional cd players are a dying breed and I'm installing my transporter tonight, but i'm still curious. 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

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] why didn't cd players ever re-buffer?

2006-10-12 Thread Pat Farrell
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