BEST CD TRANSPORT

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Charles 1DAD, Is spot on with the RS2T transport.  I have 2 systems,  the smaller and less expensive one uses a Audiolab 6000CDT and sounds great with an Benchmark 3B DAC. The more expensive one uses The RS2T with a Meitner Ma1 V2 Dac  and sounds superb. It is of course much more money.

    All the transports mentioned, as Charles stated are very good and no one would be disappointed to own any one of them. But, for the money You'll be hard pressed to come close to the RS2T in sound. I have also added A LTA audio LPS. All I listen to is R&R at about 90db , and always leave smiling. Of course,  a couple of glasses of Buffalo Trace  never hurts. Robert TN

The MSB Signature Data CD transport has two features which make it an outstanding transport. The first one works with all the outputs. While playing a disc it is actually ripping it, storing it on cache and then it plays it back. The second one works only with an MSB dac. Using the i2S output, the transport will be synced to the dac’s internal clock. You can hear the laser turning on and off and in a dark room see it doing it.

Disc spinners that I own, in order of preference:

Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 T

Esoteric UX-3pi

Oppo UDP-205

Oppo UDP-203

Pioneer BDP-88f

Oppo BDP-80

I compared all of these as transports, in the same system, same cables.