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Hi Chris, thanks for the response. Yes, I read your reviews, and I have heard the Ayre combination. This may be hard to answer, but while the sonic signatures of each combination may be different (and therefore some may prefer one component to the other based on personal tastes), do you think they occupy a similar level in terms of overall quality? In other words, could one be termed a "step up" or "uprade" over the other? Mark

Does anyone have any thoughts on this comparison, purely in terms of audiophile sound quality? Mark

Good advice, thanks jr.

What is the rule of thumb for number of bytes per music CD (ripped without compression)? In other words, I have X number of CDs, so I need a hard drive of Y number of bytes. I think last time I counted I had between 300 and 400 CDs.