Rise audiophile CD player ships in three separate cases
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 9th 2007 3:46AM
posted August 9th 2007 3:46AM
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Is it just me or does it look to be steorn orbo powered?
Orbo cares NOT for your puny Earth music!
Bring forth the one called, Bee-ork!
Yea I'll stick with my ipod.
OMG this this is total trash, what a mess. What?? no hermetically sealed chamber for the cd to spin in? What if there is a slight change of barometric pressure while I am listening to my music?
That have obviously failed to consider all areas of possible interference.
", but something tells us that Rise isn't exactly giving these away."
i guess you mean for free? ;)
Duh.
This thing looks pretty neat, but is a waste of space. Don't they know CD's are on the way out anyways? I think I'll just use my computer to play/rip CD's... despite the pesky magnetic, vibrational, gravitational, barometric, thermal, and whatever other types of 'interference' you can think of.
Overkill much?
I don't see even the slightest hint of neutrino shielding. How can we get the kind of soundstage and imaging expected from high end equipment, when it fails to protect the CD from neutrinos?
I hear you brother, also it is totally missing any sort of dynamic balancing for localized gravitational perturbations.
Something else was I was considering with the hyperbolic system is the need to know the altitude and atmospheric pressure at the time the cd was stamped. Any ideas how that can be compensated for?
Won't somebody think of the frame dragging?
I was a consultant on the development of the D/A converter of this unit. For superior soundstage we employed chronal displacement technology (CDT) to timeshift the soundwaves. We used four such units at different crossover points. The CDT is further augmented by dilithium synchronized dimensional separators. This gives you the sensation of actually "being there" without being there. It is also designed to rest on spent uranium feet to minimize vibration. All parts were manufactured and assembled in a zero-g vacuum environment to ensure that all contact and metals are oxygen free and free of impurities.
It will be shipping with a 3 ft premium Radio Shack 24ga Nickel plated RCA patchcord.
Enjoy
CD's are CRAP. They're DIGITAL, a dirty word in the world of the nut case audiophile, where analog, tubes and vinyl are all the rage.
The problem with tube amps is you can never be certain that the tubes were manufactured with an exacting UHV environment. That necessitates a vacuum chamber with a hydrogen cold trap to make a perfect UHV vacuum exists, and I just want to listen to music man. That is waaayyyyy to much effort for my tastes.
Anyone who tells you digital can never give you the fidelity of analog is either selling something or needs to hit the math books again. I can see an argument against CDs, but against digital in general (SACD, for example)? Poppycock.
As for this particular CD player, I don't see how you can call it "hi-fi" when it doesn't even have a Faraday cage. "Dude! I can TOTALLY hear the radio waves on my CD player!"
Overkill for a CD transport, maybe, but not for record player. This stuff is nothing new in that arena. Still CD's need all the help they can get since they are pretty much a low end medium, yet still miles above an iPod.
- Roger
"CD's need all the help they can get since they are pretty much a low end medium, yet still miles above an iPod."
Way to compare a storage medium to a playback device, doofus.
Oh, so you are one of those people who feel that if you remove 90% of the data from a CD track somehow makes it sound better. Guess you are stuck in a low-fi world.
No, he did not say that. He merely said that you were comparing a storage medium (CD) with a playback device (iPod). You buy CD's with music on them, not iPods. And you do know that the iPod can play back lossless files which are equal in quality to the original (CD), right?
You do know the iPod sounds like shit, right?
does it play mp3 cds? haha jokes jokes
Not pictured: 4th suitcase; empty. Stuff it with unmarked bills, hand over to audiophile shysters, and the other 3 cases are yours!
Well,
These pieces of fine machinery may seem reasonable for playing a vinyl LP, as long as an analogue source is clearly exposed to a number of external perturbations, but what's the point of spending loads of bucks in an artifact intended to play digital media? The critical part of a CD player is the DAC. This is were real added value rests. Why would someone want to spend money in non-critical components such as anti-vibration devices?
Anyway, I do not see any CD players in the market in 20 years.
ITT: Audiophiles=stupid
but can it play doom?
But will it blend?
where do i plug in my earbuds?
For a little extra they'll send some Oompa Loompas to set it up for you, but I don't think you'll like what they'll be singing about you.
All this audiophile stuff cracks me up. I like good sound as much as the next guys, but honestly, some of my most memorable music moments were experienced in my hand-me-down Honda Civic, blasting my favorite tunes out of cheap 6x9's. Ahhhh.... Metallica never sounded so sweet.
the only part that matters in any CD player or even any DAP is the Digital to Analogue Converter any deck, ever a $20 radio shack deck can get the data off the CD and send it to the DAC perfectly, just like the CD/DVD player in all our computers do every day... in fact for files on a computer it's even more critical since one bit out of whack causes the transfer to fail... for a turntable, sure knock yourself out but these things don't have any place in a digital device... useless snake oil!
want great CD sound find the cheapest transport you can find and spend the rest or your money you were going to spend on a D/A Converter
You forgot the speakers. They have far more of an effect on sound quality.
Does it come with a complementary green marker?
LOL!
Hmm. It appears to come with all 3 pieces of the triforce, which means THAT is how it compensates for any interference with the music playback, now, in the future, or in the past.
Audiophiles are about 2 steps above furries on the geek hierarchy. . . or at least wedged in-between otaku and cosplayers.
Furries, of course, are the very bottom rung. It gets no lower than yiffing.