Audio Research Source - CD3 mkII, CD5

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Yes I agree that the CD7 should blow it away. I cannot wait.
Bought the Transporter for the times that I am multi tasking. My vinyl still kills both of my present digital set ups, but I cannot listen to vinyl at night. I have a habit of snoozing......................at the end of the day.
Take care,

For Dave Mitchell: I've also heard a rumor there is a new DAC in the works. Have you heard anything?

Not so fast. I owned a CD7 until I tried the Modwright transporter. No contest. The CD7 went for sale the next week. I few things about the CD7. Do not leave the CD door open when the unit is turned on. The door blocks the tubes from venting. Bad design. I opened my door and when looking for a CD and came back to problems. The tubes matter in which socket they go into even though they are all the same tube. Contact ARC before you install the tubes just to make sure because it's not real clear. The players runs very very hot and I mean hot, hotter then my amp. The last thing is that it has a very very high output voltage and can make some preamp clip so be careful. I thought my Ayre CX-5xe was a better sounding player over the CD7.

With the transporter using a MAC with error correcting and apple lossless makes a big difference. MAC does a very nice job getting all the data off the disk to start with.

Mtdking, it seems that you've had a bad experience with CD7 and the technical problems you encountered with the unit had big impact on your decision making. I can not really imagine what Modwright transporter should sound like to be better than CD7, because the unmodded one was not even half as good as my CD3. But, every system is different, so we should take into account system synergy and how different we all hear things.

Not really a bad experience just didn't care for it for the money. I still own a Ayre C-5xe but the Modwright is really better. If you don't believe how good the Modwright really is read the 6 moons review.

The modwright is nothing like the original transporter, I have both. It is like saying I really didn't like the Sony DVP-999es so the Modwright version must be only a little better. Wrong! Don't knock it till you try it. You don't see my knocking the CD7 if I didn't try it. I only pass on my personal experiences not hearsay.

I had my CD7 on all day since I listen to music when I work. I went through a set of tubes in 2 months. I had my Ref 3 on the same amount of time and I still have the same set of tubes. Go figure! I love my Ref 3 just not the CD7.