CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

Had a distribution from my company, and ordered the Nicola power supply.  The LTA costs more than the CD transport.   I’m not a fan of the top loading system, almost as consuming as an lp, yet it was the drawer mechanisms on my Theta and PS audio transports that failed 

CD transport tray mechanisms are relatively complex and can become finicky and unreliable over time. I love and appreciate the straightforward simplicity of the top loading RS2T. To boot, its spinning mechanism unit is astutely thought out and isolation/vibration management is very well addressed.

My P.S. Audio PWT served me quite well sonically for 12 years. Occasionally the sliding tray would get stuck and not open. This is not a concern obviously with the RS2T top loader.

Charles

I'd like to chime in here. After having several communications with Charles1dad I purchased an RS2T and am very pleased with that transport, I have not had any issues with it.

I have the Jay’ Audio Transport MK2. I have not had it long but it does sound very good. It does not make badly recorded CDs sound better, which initially misled me to thinking the transport was not giving me good audio results, but it makes very good CD recordings sound fantastic. So it very much reveals what your source material gives you. It sounds better than my Rega Apollo or older ES Sony CD player feeding a good DAC. That is my two cents

Chiming in on this discussion. I was using an Onkyo 7030 CDP as a transport and felt like it was pretty blah.

I heard about the Cambridge Audio CXC Transport and as luck would have it one showed up locally the next day for sale at under $300.

I grabbed it and WOW. I'm blown away with the improvement. Who knew those 800 CDs in my attic could sound so good.

I realize the CXC is one of the less expensive transports out there - I'm likely going to have to upgrade to the Audiolab 9000CDT or Jay’s Audio CDT2-MK3.

To make a short story long - I brought down 13 boxes of CDs from the attic and picked the 250 or so most relevant CDs to put on a revised shelf unit in my "office."

I've been streaming Qobuz for the past couple of years and super happy - but this is better right now.