Teajay did a great job by starting a threat called "Reference DACS: An overall perspective." I thought it might be beneficial to start a similar thread on transports. Unfortunately I really have nothing much to say; I just hoped to get the ball rolling.
I'll start by throwing out a few names and a question:
Zanden 2000 CEC TL-0X Metronome Kalista; T2-i Signature; and T2-A Esoteric P-01; and P-03(?) EMM Labs CDSD 47Labs PiTracer Weiss Jason Accustic Arts Drive 1 Ensemble Dirondo Wadia 270se
I know that there are very few companies that actually make the drives themselves. The few I know about are: Philips TEAC Sanyo/CEC
Do the various Philips drives or the TEAC VRDS transport mechanism each have a particular sonic signature regardless of which maunufacturer uses them in their designs?
Pardales, could you please elaborate on the inherent musical superiority that hard drives, currently based on magnetic read/write heads on multi-platter Random Access media are expected to have over optical drives?
I am no expert. Others can speak to, and have in other threads, the merits of the hard drive. For example, Steve at Empirical Audio has written about this on threads in the computer audio forum and at his website.
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