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Memory Player vs Dedicated PC-TopUSB Conv and DAC

Has anybody owning the Memory Player compared it to a dedicated PC system using software(such as EAC and Foobar, and by-passing the gremlins of Windows Media ) with a good USB2 to AES/EBU converter, like the Offramp available from Emperical Audio to a top quality DAC.
Is this the future for transports?
thanks.
Nev
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osgorth
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Just a slightly OT question: how would playback from memory (RAM) in itself be better, as opposed to playback from a hard drive, a flash drive or whatever?

Someone forgets that in order to play _anything_ on a computer, the data must first be transferred to memory. So no matter which media you use, when it comes to actually feeding the PCM to the output device of your choice, it IS being read from RAM.

So, how would a RAM drive help?
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