Hi Phil
Thanks for the detailed reply. I spent some time over the weekend to tweak a Daphile setup on an old computer. Unfortunately one cant use it as a pure CD player just yet but one can set it up to auto rip upon install.
Thx for the PSA tip. The new model does SACD (and uses an Oppo transport!), and costs quite a bit more! The only other reasonably priced transport is the NuPrime CDT8 that reads into memory and then decodes (like the PSA transports). These maybe useful when someone doesnt want to rip the CD e.g. borrowed CDs. Other than that,