CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

I own the CEC TL-5 Belt drive cd transport and find it very musical and the sound is life-like. The belt drive has alot to do with it.

Project... I bought lps the uni 4 way and power the transport and the rs2 dac from this.... Dac and transport connect by i2s which also reclocks the transport for apparently better sound..... 

@mbmi 

A long time ago I had a CEC, but the belts stretched and were very expensive. I found a work around: a company who specializes in O rings sold them by the bag for less than one belt from CEC

@tweak1,,,,That's good to know....2 years running and no belt issues and they give you an additional belt in the package. CEC is the go to transport in Japan where they're made.

A good few years ago I auditioned so many CD Transport/DAC/CD Players I could get hold of. I came to only one that satisfied - THETA.

Expensive, but well built and sounds amazing - still working like a dream and still sounds fantastic. Occasionally available second hand.

The designer is called Mike Moffat, and he now co-owns Schiit Audio. 

If I was going to buy a replacement for Theta, that is the first place I'd look.