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New, Very Interesting CD Transport

On John Darko's website today we learn of the brand new Shanling ET3 CD Transport. And for $729 USD it looks really capable. Top loading with Philips SAA7824 drive. AES/EBU, coaxial, TOSLINK and I2S digital outputs. Plus Wifi and Bluetooth. USB to connect to a external HD and built in upsampling, too. It even will output digital to USB for connection to a DAC but not with upsampling.

Here's the skinny:

https://darko.audio/2023/06/shanlings-et3-cd-transport-comes-with-two-twists/

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thyname
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$729 for a China transport. Is that cheap or expensive? I honestly don’t know 

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roxy54
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It certainly looks bare-bones cheap and plasticky.

mofojo
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Well the $4,0000 Pro-ject transport weighs about 4 lbs and is all plasticky as well. If something is equivalent for 800 bucks maybe worth looking at. With I2s drive. I’m semi interested. Not saying it’s any good at all I have no clue. 

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