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If you still spin CD's their is a reference level Transport for reasonable money

I just got in-house the Jay's Audio CDT-2 MK3 transport to review for hometheaterreview.com.  The build quality and physical appearance make it hard to believe that it retails for around $2,400.  Right out of the crate not even broken in yet, it's out performing my CEC double belt transport in the reference system.  It retains all the liquidity and analog smoothness of the belt driven transport but offers more details, tighter bass frequencies, and a larger layered soundstage with more air between the players.

Alvin, of Vinshine Audio set this review up with me, so if you go to his website you can get a lot more details/pictures on this transport.  The reason I was motivated to review a CD transport was I received scores of requests from my readers asking what is a great sounding transport, for a reasonable amount of money.  So far, in spades the Jay's Audio CDT-2 MK3 fits the bill easily.   
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georgehifi
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The CXC is fine transport but it is certainly not a high end gear.

The OP has asked for one that's reasonable money.

I’d like to see anything under $1.5k new, equal or better it by a good margin.

Cheers George
facten
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nonoise,
I think he was looking for teajay's review, your link is the review by Sarjan Ebaen in 2018

I'm guessing that teajay won't have a review on it as he is no longer reviewing for hometheaterreview  and Sarjan already reviewed it on 6Moons
acresverde
375 posts
 
@ nonoise   Thanks for posting that link. Unfortunately, that review is not authored by TJ and I had already seen it when it was originally put up. And I have no quibble with any of the conclusions reached. But that does not let TJ off the hook for repeatedly dodging the seemingly innocuous/harmless question of when/where can we expect to find HIS review of this product.

All the best.
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nonoise
10,675 posts
 
My bad. 👍
facten
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acresverde
Since teajay is now associated with 6Moons vs hometheaterreview do you think that 6Moons is going to publish 2 reviews on the same piece of gear? Likely not.
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