TRANSPORTER???

So I have to ask this question then, “What is the difference in a CD player and a Transport?”. Dill, “kind of like a turntable for cd’s &SACD’s.”, confuses me more. Thanks for helping me out of audio ignorance by replying.

Think of a transport as a CD player without an analog output.  A transport will only output a digital signal, for which you will need a digital to analog converter (DAC) in order to get your music.  A CD player with a digital output can serve as a transport, if you just use it to send a digital signal to a DAC.

So I am assuming the transport is the better between it and the CD player, otherwise we would just be using the CD player? Which digital connector is the better quality?

Toslink (worst) RCA (very good) USB audio 2.0 (excellent)  XLR (best), I think is how this goes.

Mattmiller, you’re saying copper wire, (coaxial), is better than fiber optics,(toslink)?