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Originally Posted by wilyodysseus 
I can't imagine how there could be any difference in audio quality, unless your system is severely starved for resources (i.e.--you're exceeding physical RAM most of the time, you have almost no hard drive free space, or some process is pegging your CPU's). Whether SSD or spinning platter, a hard drive will have much higher throughput than a CD reader, certainly enough for music playback.
I'm using Ayrewave on OS X. Maybe my Macbook doesn't have "enough" ram, since I'm running only 2GB, but there was a nice difference going to memory mode in Ayrewave. It's pretty much accepted in the computer audiophile community that SSD is the way to go. I haven't tried SSD, only memory mode on Ayrewave. I know for sure I'm not going back to hard drive playback.
