Apologies if this has been raised before... this is my first visit to
the NG.

I have 600+ CDs in my collection, and we're in the process of renovating
the house. At the moment they're all stacked up in inaccessible piles,
ready for the fitting of a new shelving system in which to store them
permanently once all the work is done.

....and then someone pointed me towards an iPod for the first time, and I
saw the possibilities of saving a whole stack of cash and space by not
getting any proper shelving at all, and simply putting all my music onto
an iPod instead.

The logic here is pretty sound, except for the sound itself. The quality
of the compressed files on the iPod when played through my hi-fi system
leaves something to be desired. (And, although an iPod has incredible
storage capacity for it's small size, it would not take my entire
collection in an uncompressed state.)

I have been so satisfied with my aged hi-fi system that I have sort of
'lost the plot' as regards the current state of the art, but the iPod
idea set me thinking...

Is there is a hi-fi unit sized machine available on the market yet which
has the capacity to enable digital storage of several hundred
_uncompressed_ CDs? I think I'm talking in TBs here.

What I am thinking of would be a sort of non-portable 'grown-up' iPod,
which would have all the convenience of the iPod combined with the sound
quality of a genuine hi-fi unit.

Does one exist yet?

Regards,
Meehan