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older CD transport vs newer ones.

I added a fairly inexpensive CD transport to my DCS Rossini DAC/Clock and am shocked how much better it sounds spinning a disc vs streaming it.  It's not even a close call.  I was thinking of bettering my CD transport and was looking at options such at the Jay's CD transport.  There are also options such as Mark Levinson 31.5 which was a 10K unit in it's day.  Any thoughts on the best way to go?  I get a little worried about one of these older units breaking and not being able to get it fixed.  
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charles1dad
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  • "All transport does is spin the cd and a laser reads it, signal to your dad.

       Don’t waste money on a CD player without a dac. The tascam CD player is good and reliable, the sound comes from your dac," 
If this has been your listening experience,  so be it. This is the antithesis of mine.
Charles 

facten
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+1 Charles
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arcticdeth
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We use McCormack UDP-1  and. Pioneer elite dv-79av
will put the elite up against any (almost) CD player out there. 
bigkidz
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Pro-Ject RS2 Box transport is right now the best transport I have tried.  Easily is an improvement over any streamer or playing from a hard drive based system.  It was better than the Jays, CEC, Rega, Esoteric, PS Audio, etc.  That being said, I am moving to playing through a hard drive system myself.  Better sound, well  no but so easy to play music at your finger tips.  Since we make our own components we can adjust the sound to our demonstration system as needed.



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nonoise
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It certainly pays to hear from those who've actually bothered to listen to a component than just spout off about something they've never even heard.

All the best,
Nonoise
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