How well does it do gapless playback?

Would someone who has a Rio Central care to comment on the following scenarios?

1. Say you have a CD with consecutive tracks (like Dark Side Of The Moon). You've ripped it on your computer and hand tweaked the tracks using GapKiller to try to acheive the most perfect seamless playback possible. Once you feed these tracks to the Central, how does it do in the playback? Better than the empeg? Worse? Similar?

2. Same CD as scenario one, but feed the CD to the central for ripping and encoding. How does it come out on playback?

-Aaron

It uses the same playback software as the car player, so externally ripped tracks will sound the same.

The internal ripper (licenced from ARM/FhG) does not include a gapkiller utility, so there are likely to be small gaps.

Rob

You would think that I, of all people, would have tried this. But I've never listened to the Receiver or the Central on anything but shuffle and simply never thought of giving it a try. Go figure.

What does it matter... you're selling the damn thing anyway...

ROFL

Yeah, when I posted this I was expecting a reply from you detailing what you found out in your testing. It was you, of all people, that I expected could reply most knowledgeably on the subject. I feel like I somehow caught you with your pants down.

So, I have an idea. Since you're getting out of MP3 and getting rid of the Central anyway, just send it to me, and I'll promise to test it out and report back here, okay?

-Aaron