CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

PS Audio makes a great SACD/CD Transport.  Their Perfect Wave SACD Transport is excellent.  

asctim,

You sound much more knowledgeable about such things than I am. I'm an engineer, but the mechanical kind. I'm assuming you could do what you're looking at, but as an audiophile my job is to find the companies that do what I cannot....at a cost I can afford.

Having owned several CD players, and since transports; the Audiolab is the best I have owned, and the Jay's is the best I have personally had in my system on loan.

As with most things in this hobby, I have found that bits is not bits.....and higher quality components usually provide better sound 

@cymivka 

Glad you were able to resolve without sending it out

Enjoy

I step in and out of the 'must upgrade arena', this is seemingly for the reason.         I am new to using Digital as a Source within the Main System, with only a few+ years of CD in use as a Source.

I moved quite swiftly from CDP to CDT > DAC and have a Bespoke Built Valve Rectified / Valve Output DAC, with a PS Audio Perfect Wave Memory Player.  

I have heard with a intention to evaluate more DAC's than Transports and a few other CDP Models over the period of time I have been using a Digital Source.

Recently a friend put their own designed DAC with a Build Cost of approx' £350  out for a Demonstration and undergo comparison with other Digital Devices to be used.

The outcome of this has been a Denafrips Venus II owned by a HiFi Dealer as their personal DAC, is now wanting to depart from the DAC and the own design DAC owner is keen to experience my Set Up in use in their own system, as they feel the Transport can be found for very fair money used and can have real potential.

For me, It will be good to sit down and Compare my Transport > DAC with another DAC in a system I am quite familiar with.

The idea of getting out and receiving demonstrations of equipment, is in my view, the only method to aide the OP in attaining the New Experience of produced sound they are hoping to achieve.

When discoveries are made that are attractive, if a Home Demo' is achievable, the experience will be very valuable in making a assessment for a purchase.