It's a slow process. Many audiophiles were (and some still are) against digital, remember the controversy about sampling and the "stairs" which were showed in sketches trying to explain digital, showing that some music was left out. As the turntable and the cartridge were very important (and expensive), now you tell that a cheap computer can do better than an expensive transport? Trying to retain some analog quality to digital, some made transports with a belt, others put some tubes in the cd player (i must confess i bought a Luxman cd 105), some more said: "let's put this $100 drive in a $5000 case with a big face plate and no matter if in a few years our dear costumers must throw them away because those cheap drives are no more produced". Now that computer drives and HDDs are beginning to be accepted, a new trend is on the way: make a computer that doesn't look like a computer. Put a drive, a HDD and some boards inside a sexy case, and sell it a high-end price. As long as it doesn't look like a computer, that's fine...
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