Busted, another nail in the coffin for 'high-end' audio..

[pixelthis]

badge engineering, what I have been talking about on this site for years.

ALTHOUGH one of the worst examples I have seem.
Isnt putting a Sony drive in a 2000$ CD player about as bad?

[Ajani]

badge engineering, what I have been talking about on this site for years.

ALTHOUGH one of the worst examples I have seem.
Isnt putting a Sony drive in a 2000$ CD player about as bad?

Depends on what components they use around the drive.... If the drive is just used for extracting digital info and then all the analog work is done by 'audiophile' parts then it can be OK...

Computer Audio has shown that you can use a cheap consumer device (Squeezebox, AppeTV or even iPod for example) as transports for exceptionally expensive and High Quality Stereo Systems...

Not every single component needs to be high end... Just the ones handling conversion to analog and analog outputs....