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Reference Transports: An overall perspective

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?
exlibris
pardales
652 posts
 
Anything's possible Teajay. If I get a chance to demo a really top-flight transport
in my system I certainly will. That said, my hard-drive based music server isn't
going anywhere, no matter what. There is just nothing like having any song or
album in my entire music collection at my fingertips. You should see the way
iTunes 7 allows you to scroll through your music by album cover. Very cool.
Sorry, I know this is off topic for this thread.
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tabl10s
1,094 posts
 
If your transport breaks, you repair or get a new one. If your HD goes south, it gets tossed with all you stuff on it or you have to buy an adapter kit to hopefully download available content that's hopefully not corrupted.
eandylee
124 posts
 
"If your transport breaks, you repair or get a new one. If your HD goes south, it gets tossed with all you stuff on it or you have to buy an adapter kit to hopefully download available content that's hopefully not corrupted."

Bankup is your friend.

Hard dirves are not that expensive these days especially compared to the high-end audio gears, even compared to the cost of repair...

It's not an issue at all.

These days you store all your pictures on hard drives, why not all your music.

It'll be one of the major way of listening to music in the near future.
henryhk
648 posts
 
& u can always have a back up hard drive
arkapp
1 posts
 
Tottally agree - XL-Z999ex is really one of the greatest. But there is sth much better on the market - XL-Z1000. I have both of them (100V version), so I had possibillity to compare. Based on my observation, using digital (RCA) connection between both and DAC from XL-Z999ex. Sonically huge difference - bigger, quiter, more stable sound, wider sceene, much more details. Even power cable - integrated version gives possibility to use separate one (NBS Monitor0), in transport case - there is one built in.
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