CD transports; do they really matter

I'd rather stand before my stacks as if in a library to decide what I'm going to listen to next than screw around with an I-pad.

Putting two components into a shared chassis is always a compromise. A dac introduces noise to the transport section. It’s better to keep them seperate. Usually a transport will have a better mechanism and read capability, as that is where the money is spent, absent the dac. Cyrus makes a nice transport in the CD-T for $1200. Add in a nice Border Patrol r2r dac. 

I had the Luxman CD-06 : the driver was very good ,but the Dac within was à nightmare. : sound was flat, no dynamic … now I bought the Audio Note CDT two/2 with the Metronome Technologie C6: : the sound is great ! Very 3D , open , detailfull : I love it now. The Moon Mind 2 streamer is also connected on de Metronome : great !!

@charles1dad Pro-Ject specifically wanted a small footprint package (Their "Box" concept). Adding an internal LPS they reasoned is inevitably going to increase the physical package (Which they are seeking to avoid).

OK, thankyou, I didn’t know that.

This makes everything I’ve said irrelevant. Too late to delete everything now.

Also, I agree with the logic that people who buy the Pro-Ject will possibly be of such a disposition to wish to personalise it according to their own perhaps unconventional preferences.

You have described this for people like me who are a bit slow to hear the penny drop. I would like that choice too, having thought about it for a nano-second - my thought process often goes on tangents rather than a straight line. It is aspects like the ability to customise which make the journey enjoyable and maybe cerebral.

Charles 1 dad, which esoteric transport did you own?