Resolving CD Transports Crowd Sourcing

@facten 

As a very happy owner of the RS2T I totally have no issue with your injected comment. Pro-Ject has a quality control problem that they have to acknowledge and correct. Hopefully they will commit to this. They obviously had a bad product run at some point. 
 

I purchase my RS2T in November 2021 and have had zero problems. This seems to be the case with other owners who purchased around that same period. So something went wrong at some point with subsequent production of this transport. I’ve been an advocate of the RS2T on this forum solely based upon my outcome with it. 
 

Pro-Ject needs to figure out how to get the quality control and reliability to match their achievements with its superb sound quality.

Charles

@charles1dad 

@facten 

Thanks for the timely and common sense advice. I called the dealer from whom I purchased my CD Boxes. His advised against because there is still too high failure rate. He won't be taking orders for it in the foreseeable future. I followed up with a second phone call to another audio dealer who advised against it, also. Oh well, that settles it.....

Onward and upward. Waiting for the Urd and Teac 701T to be released. Am going to give them attentive auditions.

David

@wharfy  - Sorry that you didn't get a thumbs up from them, but glad that you at least got their honest responses.

@wharfy 

Onward and upward. Waiting for the Urd and Teac 701T to be released. Am going to give them attentive auditions

Agreed!!

Pro-Ject RS2T is a home run sonically but let down by questionable management actions/decisions. Onward indeed. David I am looking forward to your listening impressions of the Schitt and the TEAC transports. Sonically the ARC CD6 SE and RS2T have set the bar high.

Charles

https://imgur.com/a/on2stS3

Just a follow up. So I have in house the Jay Audio CDT MK3 and their new Clock 2.

Head to head against the Teac VRDS and clock (as transports). I’ve listened to the Jay in 24bit/176kHz upsampling and native 16bit/44.1kHz of the Teac and these two transports are excellent, but honestly the Jay can sound ever so slightly etched with certain high frequency sounds. Vocals more present and up front with the Jay, bass more weighted and palpable with the Teac, both extremely detailed. Maybe ever so slightly more depth with the Jay do to vocals being more forward, but the Teac is just that good. Maybe even better considering there isn’t anything that sounds strident on it. My speakers are the Focal Sopra 3 and Mola Mola Tambaqui DAC with Riviera Levante IA.

Teac VRDS 701 CDP and CG-10 Clock coming in at $3,800 + $1,800, Jay CDT3 MK3 with Clock 2 at $5,000 + $700. So both essentially the same price.

I honestly have to give my overall nod to the Teac yet again, however the Jay Clock-2 is a better value. If you want to try a diffenr clock with the Teac (cheaper) keep in mind you need a 50ohm clock and cabling to make it all work, which is harder to come by, then say a 75ohm clock.

Just a recap

Teac Pros
Tray load
DAC, CDT, Digital Inputs, Preamp
Better low frequency control and weight
Trigger functions
Better value

Jay Pros:
Tank build
Better Visibility for the screen
Upsampling (best with R2R or smoother more rolled off DAC IMO)
More vocal presence

https://imgur.com/a/on2stS3