CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

Chiming in on this discussion. I was using an Onkyo 7030 CDP as a transport and felt like it was pretty blah.

I heard about the Cambridge Audio CXC Transport and as luck would have it one showed up locally the next day for sale at under $300.

I grabbed it and WOW. I'm blown away with the improvement. Who knew those 800 CDs in my attic could sound so good.

I realize the CXC is one of the less expensive transports out there - I'm likely going to have to upgrade to the Audiolab 9000CDT or Jay’s Audio CDT2-MK3.

To make a short story long - I brought down 13 boxes of CDs from the attic and picked the 250 or so most relevant CDs to put on a revised shelf unit in my "office."

I've been streaming Qobuz for the past couple of years and super happy - but this is better right now.

I posted my comment on CD Transports just 12-short days ago. And, while I really liked the Cambridge Audio CXC quite a bit, I just purchased an Audiolab 6000CDT to compare it with. And the verdict is that the Audiolab is the way to go.

This CDT has a way with digital that makes it so listenable, so layered and just right.

In that older post ^above this one I was blown away by the CXC, so now it would be silly to say the Audiolab has blown me further away. But it is a fine and noticeable improvement, yet again.