[Frank Stearns]

My 12 year-old machine is finally in on its last legs. Maybe it's because the format
is slowly dying, but choices for a replacement commercial-grade player seem to have
diminished.

My needs are simple:

1. stable, lower-error transport that can read a varying level of disk quality. I'm
leery of the $9 commodity transports used in many players, even supposedly
higher-end players. These cheapie transports seem prone to not reading disks unless
they're perfect, jumping into EDC too soon, or just have a high error rate
(perhaps because a single laser is tasked for both CD and DVD track widths).

2. AES-EBU or SPDIF output. (Don't care about analog outs and internal DAC quality;
won't be used.)

3. Quiet transport and no fan -- it's in the control room

4. 1U size and a slot for USB sticks would be nice but not necessary.

Any experience with some of the current generation of machines? (The Tascam 200 or
500 look like they might work; anyone own or use one?)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Frank
Mobile Audio

PS: I don't use the drive in the workstation because the audio has to go through the
windows audio subsystem, which just plains screws up sonics, even if it's a purely
digital source.
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