In article , Rob wrote:
OUt of interest (I'm still looking for an elegant way to record LPs and
play back music stored on a computer) what spec would you choose for a
music server?

Something with vastly greater storage capacity than any of the current
offerings. This capacity would have to be indefinitely extendable by means
of external pluggable standard disk drives, otherwise it will be out of
date before it even gets to market, which is pretty much what is happening
to the 640H.

The coding method needs looking at too. It seems ludicrous that in the
world of hi-fi audio, where some people fret about the alleged nuances of
loudspeaker cables, anyone could sell a digital recording device that uses
any kind of lossy compression, effectively throwing most of the digits
away.

Think of the 640H, as a large, fixed, mains powered iPod with less than
three times the capacity of the real thing, and you'll probably have some
idea why they're apparently hesitating to put it on the market. It's the
same reason why I would hesitate to buy one unless it offered something
better, like superior quality, portability, or vastly greater storage
capacity. If you can already buy something that can store your entire
record collection in a thing the size of a matchbox and put it in your
pocket, what's the incentive for buying something that can't?

Rod.