New, Very Interesting CD Transport

I owned a Shanling CD player 15 years or so ago.   I thought it looked “cool” with the blue lights on the tubes and such.   It was a very poorly made player, broke twice and was actually gaudy looking.   I advertised it here for sale as a “parts only player” and it sold almost as soon as I placed the ad. I saw a used one at a high end store in Framingham and the owner told me that he wouldn’t sell it to me since he knows me. He actually told me to purchase a used Walkman, said it sounded better.  Lol. 

No experience with different spinners other than owning three different CD players since 1980’s. I do know that my last two sound different. Anything and everything in your system can potentially sound different, regardless of function. For example, I am using my most recent CD player as a transport only. Swapping out the S/PDIF digital 75 ohm coax cable to my DAC from $50 blue well made, highly rated (forget brand name) cable to a Silnote cable, there was noticeable improvement! Don’t ask me why or how a digital cable can make a difference, but it did! So, the bits are bits and wire is wire argument doesn’t fly with me. Different spinners can sound different from one another. Not saying more expensive is better, but can certainly sound different.

@magnuman :You're absolutely right.  However, I believe that TEAC made the VRDS clamping transport for Esoteric - just messing with you. Cheers. 

tannoy56,

Teac owns Esoteric lol

tannoy56,

and they still do make it, esoteric still uses updated versions of the VRDS transport I've got the esoteric P10 from the '90s and it's still outperforms most of the transports out there to this day and it's built like a tank.