and buffer.... [not or buffer]


The point being all the DACs I've noticed announced for a while have had quite a lot, including the stuff for buffering and reclocking integrated on usually a single chip, I think. I'm not directly professionally involved with this aspect of engineering so I don't really keep up, but in any digital storage (hard drives, for instance) the 'bits' coming off the platter are in terrible shape, but its not a problem because that stuff all gets cleaned up, and it's easy to do.

Are there any modern CD players that don't do this sort of cleaning of the raw data?