jbol

Replacing the hdd by ssd will not change anything including jitter. Same goes to cryo treatment. Except if you ignore physics and really want to believe in these things of course. If this is the case go for it, both ssd replacement and cryo treatment will at least not harm your unit and if you end up thinking your HAP sounds way better, good for you!

True, I understand that and it is already nice that it is possible. My concern however is the support on which the OS is stored. If the unit is able to format a new hard drive and copy sample files to it, then there must be another drive or medium where an OS and the sample files are stored. Then the question is, what happen when this medium fails (which has to happen at some point). I guess the storage medium itself can neither be so costly nor hard to replace but one still needs to get the OS.

Hi there, my first post here. Thanks for the informative discussion on this thread. As a potential buyer of this unit, I'd like to raise the following point in response to ljames post: This sounds very good as as someone mentioned earlier, if the internal HDD fails (which WILL happen in the very best case in less than 10 years from now) then it is always possible to swap it for a new one. Now, what about the storage on board? That one will also have a limited life expectancy. Is it possible to exchange this one, will Sony provide the operating system to download? I am asking because if it is not the case, the unit will have a rather short life expectancy, probably shorter than a CD-player (and it is already frustrating to have a very nice CD-player with a broken laser that would be relatively cheap to replace if it was still available). Any thoughts on that?