What's wrong with a DVD player as a transport?

I seem to remember the "measurements" section of a review where John Atkinson discussed DVD players being able to generally read the more difficult test tracks without error, compared to cd players. OTOH, I found this post where he indicated their inferiority due to master clock frequency discrepancies.

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/m.mpl?forum=digital&n=89660&highlight=john+atkinson&r=&session=

With the newer stuff, I have to agree with Avguygeorge regarding quality and implementation as my Muse 10 sounds much better than the PD65 with D2D-1 and DAC 3.0 that it replaced.

I bought a used Reimyo DAP-777 DAC here on the 'Gon and was disappointed with its performance using both an older Pioneer CDP with the Stable Platter Mechanism and a Muse 9 CDP as transport. I bought a demo Sony DVP-S7700 CD/DVD player on eBay for $200, and the sound with the Reimyo is incredible. Talk about 'hearing into' the recording. I could hardly believe that a transport could make such a HUGE difference. And that's the stock Sony. (You can have $1300 of mods done to it if you feel guilty spending so little).
I cannot recommend this transport enough.

The sad truth is that, arguably, the weakest link in most high-end cd-playback system is...the cd itself.

The DVD player I was using was a fully modded
Pioneer DV-563A, by fully modded I mean Power supply R core transformer, pi filter Panasonic caps, and Clock, etc, etc.
I several systems the diferences were obvious, you could tell right away, I even gave it full burn in, with very slight quality increase.

I am not trying to pick a fight or disrespect anyone, I just feel that I was misguided by reviews and modders I and want to tell my story to help somebody else, I spent and lost, money trying to get a better transport with terrible results, I even bought the fully modded Sqeezebox2, which is a great product! , but High End it is not.....yet.

I agree w/the conviction that DVD players can make fine CD transports. Back when I first started obsessing w/finding a good-sounding CD player and had a Tjoeb 99, I bought a Sony DVD player (89.00) at my trusty Sony dealer -- supposedly for movies only. I A/B'd it with the 99 and guess what? I sold the Tjoeb and am still happy with the Sony, and this is in a $5,000+ system. Number of circuits and topolgy have absolutely no effect on the sound, but we tell ourselves otherwise in order to justify the Meridians, Krells, and Levinsons of the world.