Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ?

@jafant 

Yes, I live 19 miles south of Nashville in Franklin, TN. 

grannyring

Wonderful! Nice area. Does Nashville have an Audio Club?

Besides Gestalt Audio, another other Audio shop(s) worth checking out?

Happy Listening!

I don’t think an audio club exists, but I may be wrong? I have not heard of one.

Two other high end audio shops in Nashville now. Hifi Buys is one. They sell the well known brands such as Focal and McIntosh. Atelier Audio 13 is small, but Constantine has some interesting lines. He is by appointment only and operates out of his home with a room of gear. I have not been in his home /room.

Colin of Gestalt Audio Design is rather special based on my experience with dealers over the years. Here are the reasons I think this way:

- He possesses great listening skills and has actually helped me improve my listening skills. He has raised the level of music enjoyment and emotional connection to it for me and my wife in our home Hifi system.

- He imports and represents manufactures that share his love for purity of tone and sonic realism in the pieces they build. All the gear he sells sounds so magnificent. Yes, some of it is just out of my budget, but many other pieces are more approachable financially.

- He is honest, passionate about music playback, most likable and a calm mannered gentleman. He is just so easy to work with.

I have now purchased my Circle Labs integrated, Tron dac plus Hijiri and Tchernov cables from him. I hope to soon be buying speakers from Colin.

Nashville HiFi appears to be closing down.

@jafant - I live in a suburb just outside of Memphis.

Aside from the Neodio I have also purchased 3 sets of Tchernov cables from Gestalt.

I have made a few purchases from Atlelier 13 , an Aqua Dac that I no longer have, Takek supertweeters, LessLoss Firewalls for speakers.. Constantine is like Colin, knowledgeable and easy to speak to.