Hound Philips to oblivion? Are you serious?
The abandonment of the large transport manufacturers like Philips and Sony with respect to CD/SACD drives is due to market supply and demand factors. No mass market, no volume demand, and companies like Krell and MF are not even on the map.
Bryston saw the writing on the wall which is why they abandoned the sales of their redbook player, even while stockpiling spare drives for original customers.
With the performance of digital memory type products (that use inexpensive CDROM drives) rivaling or exceeding CD transports, most manufacturers are not going back.
So hound Philips all you want. It won't bring back what they consider an obsolete technology. You might as well be asking them to bring back those brick size cell phones for your 80's BMW.
The abandonment of the large transport manufacturers like Philips and Sony with respect to CD/SACD drives is due to market supply and demand factors. No mass market, no volume demand, and companies like Krell and MF are not even on the map.
Bryston saw the writing on the wall which is why they abandoned the sales of their redbook player, even while stockpiling spare drives for original customers.
With the performance of digital memory type products (that use inexpensive CDROM drives) rivaling or exceeding CD transports, most manufacturers are not going back.
So hound Philips all you want. It won't bring back what they consider an obsolete technology. You might as well be asking them to bring back those brick size cell phones for your 80's BMW.