Great answer Hamburg. While I'm tempted by the PC approach for convenience sake, I'm not convinced it would sound better than a high quality transport; but I'm willing to give it a try when there is enough consensus from those whose ears I trust (more or less:)). It seems the magazines are starting to get behind the PC based storage, and cynic that I am I suspect that some of that is to create new, viable product categories (advertisers)and new stuff to write about. But, I'm open to the possibility that one day this will be the way to go for both convenience and ulitmate sound reproduction (when it is not vinyl), but I'm not there yet. I'll stick to my trusty (and handsome)AA transport for the forseeable future.