"Gelf" emitted :

PC based hard disc players seem to be a common topic of discussion in
this ng at the moment
Has anyone any comments on likely sound quality compared to a
standalone CD player?
I'm thinking along the lines of feeding digital audio from a PC
soundcard via optical link to a standalone Musical Fidelity DAC, then
to amp and speakers.
The CDs would be stored on the hard disc as wav files or flac
(lossless compression)

http://www.scalatech.co.uk/papers/aes93.pdf

My current CD player is a Marantz CD6000OSE

I have one! Good innit?

Sure is - that's why I'm a bit worried about possibly ending up with
inferior sound quality, for the sake of convenience.