Have you had problems with its sound quality and that's why you're talking about doing this?

In a word, yes.

Two problem areas with the portable: a ground loop which I am confident I can fix with a six inch piece of wire and a bit of solder, and a completely different sound persona from the portable. Its DAC gives noticeably different emphasis to the different frequencies, giving a sound that I consider to be excessively warm and "schmaltzy". Like maybe the portable has a permanent Loudness setting built in. I lose the cleanliness of sound that (IMHO) makes my car stereo better than a lot of others. Of course, it's a cheap portable player -- about $170 complete with AM/FM tuner, so I shouldn't have too high of expectations.

Speaking of portable players... has anybody noticed the portable CD player in the Radio Shack catalog that can play both CDs and MP3 files on CD-Rs? It strikes me that that would be a very useful thing in a portable -- 10--12 hours without having to swap disks.

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