Request to Polk Audio....

steveinaz

How about making a high-end portable CD Player? You've got the circuitry already developed with the XM tuner, just need to design a chasis and transport. I think there's a niche market for this, as no one offers a high quality portable. Use Burr Brown DAC's, have 2 headphone outputs.

What do you think??

Danny Tse

Something with defeatable "anti-shock", a true line-out, and perhaps a digital out.

steveinaz

Exacty. None of the "bass-boost" crap or anti-shock junk. A good, solid performer built for the audiophile.

polksda

Now this I would buy in a heartbeat!!

Tubed portable player?

Danny Tse

Tubed portable player?

I was hoping Panasonic would come up with a tubed portable CD player after its tubed car stereo. After all, Panasonic is now using digital amps in its current portable CD players.

danger boy

Originally posted by steveinaz
How about making a high-end portable CD Player? You've got the circuitry already developed with the XM tuner, just need to design a chasis and transport. I think there's a niche market for this, as no one offers a high quality portable. Use Burr Brown DAC's, have 2 headphone outputs.

What do you think??

honestly though. what's the future of CD's? it would make more sense if Polk introduced a high end MP3 player.. that seems to be the way consumers are going. ie iPOD

polksda

I think CDs will be around for a while.

I'm a collector - MP3s, like CDRs, have absolutely no intrinsic value whatsoever. Plus, people like tangible things like cover art and lyric sheets.

MP3s are transient. Hard drive bomb? Oops, there went 147 albums worth of music.

Most people that legitimately own MP3s (i.e., not your napsterites or kazaa monkeys) own the CDs in question, but convert them to MP3s for the convenience and portability of the player. They still have the CDs on a shelf back at home.

Even if as you imply, CDs are on the way out, we're probably talking 15+ years for the format to no longer be offered. After all, cassette tapes are still produced, even though they've been useless for 15 years. Regardless, we're talking MANY product lifecycles before CDs would become a nonfactor, even if some company announced a phaseout today.

Not only that, we're talking about a player for AUDIOPHILES here. Any music format with a lossy compression algorithm can't be considered audiophile-quality (IMHO).

Right now there's not a whole lot of difference in fidelity between a 320kbps MP3, and a CD played on your average (even expensive) portable CD player, so yes, it makes more sense to use MP3s. However, make an audiophile-grade portable an option, and I'll dig out my 40-CD luggable case again to cart around...

Just my 2 cents.

Frank Z

A CD player from Polk? Kinda like asking for a taco at an Italian restaurant. Stick with what you know and do well.


BTW, SDA's first!!

Shizelbs

Originally posted by Danny Tse
I was hoping Panasonic would come up with a tubed portable CD player after its tubed car stereo.

Is that thing for real? That thing is going to look great in my next new car/truck.

VR3

There are plenty of tube CA amps folks - wth...

Shizelbs

Chill out man, I don't pay any attention to car audio.

VR3

me either...

But-- they are there!

I believe Mcintosh makes some tube CA amps

Early B.

Not only that, we're talking about a player for AUDIOPHILES here.

Lets' face it, Polk's market is not audiophiles. The market is too small. That's why they're in CC and Tweeter -- for the mass market crowd.

Frank Z

Originally posted by Early B.
Lets' face it, Polk's market is not audiophiles.

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Sorry 'bout that, little phlegm or something.....