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<blockquote data-quote="Babs" data-source="post: 3987229" data-attributes="member: 567066">I&#039;d guess you&#039;re guaranteeing a digital input into the 800&#039;s processing and DAC&#039;s.. A biggie I&#039;d think.Thumb drives I imagine are far less expensive than any iPod for the same amount of data storage... They&#039;re just providing digital storage and transfer so they&#039;re simple and cheap.&nbsp; Flash or HD drives either.caveat... I may be wrong about that.. just a guess that they&#039;re lots cheaper than typical iPods.When you think about it... The iPod is just a proprietary small portable storage device with all the licensing and protocols needed to access and control them.. And from what I&#039;ve read it&#039;s darn near impossible to get digital from them without going through their cheap output stage even if the wolfson dac&#039;s are ok... Verses something that just acts like another hard drive like a USB drive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babs, post: 3987229, member: 567066"] I'd guess you're guaranteeing a digital input into the 800's processing and DAC's.. A biggie I'd think. Thumb drives I imagine are far less expensive than any iPod for the same amount of data storage... They're just providing digital storage and transfer so they're simple and cheap. Flash or HD drives either. caveat... I may be wrong about that.. just a guess that they're lots cheaper than typical iPods. When you think about it... The iPod is just a proprietary small portable storage device with all the licensing and protocols needed to access and control them.. And from what I've read it's darn near impossible to get digital from them without going through their cheap output stage even if the wolfson dac's are ok... Verses something that just acts like another hard drive like a USB drive. [/QUOTE]

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