A good cd transport for my Chord HugoTT2 DAC with Chord M-Scaler

Yamaha cd-s1000

I've owned Rotel,Vincent, Cambridge CXC,and at present a Jays Audio. The Jays was a huge upgrade in SQ.Huge.I was considering the Audiolab until I saw a used Jays at a good price and took a chance.I thought the CXC was good enough but when the drawer began to malfunction it was time to try something new.One of those cases where the hype is true.

I would say based on my testing, the Jay’s is the best I have heard. I have had the Ayon here which is also quite good.  I have had the Luxman here and believe it is far better as a transport.  The DAC in it was underwhelming for the price IMO but ai suppose my opinion is worth what you paid for it.  
 

the new Bricasti M19 is supposed to be insanely good but ai have not heard it yet.  At some point I will get one of those as a permanent device for my system.  
 

With SACD, I am not 100% certain you can get a DSD signal into chord due to copy protection. I think there needs to be a handshake between.

The other really good transports I am familiar with are hybrid streamer/server/CD like the Playback MPT-8 or the Rockna Wavedream NET.  They are excellent transports but wasteful if you dome’s need the streamer.  
 

full disclosure, I am a dealer who takes trades which is why I have heard so many of these.  I am a dealer for Bricasti, Playback and Rockna.  I have no relationship with Luxman, PS Audio, Ayon or Jay’s other than having taken product from them on trade. 

I have a Luxman-D06 cd player that I bought new in 2010 (when I also purchased a L-509u + Verity Audio Parsifal Ovation speakers).  After 6 or 7 years I used the D-06 as a transport, but as it has only a TOSLINK digital out I eventually replaced it with a Moon 260d transport which has a coaxial out. 

So just for fun this morning I put the D-06 in my second system which now consists of the L-509u integrated amp, Joseph Audio Pulsar speakers, and a PS Audio PP12 power regenerator.  To my surprise the D-06 sounded not bad at all!  In fact with one of the few SACDs that I own - Angella Hewitt playing the Chopin Nocturnes - the music sounded sublime.  Another factor may be some high frequency hearing loss in my almost 65 year old ears, but that is another story...

I will have to revisit using the D-06 as a transport using the optical out into my Chord dac.  My second system can benefit from upgrades to my main system as I consider a new digital source, but there is clearly some life left in the D-06.

Luxman was onto something in 2010, and I can only imagine how more than a decade later the D-07x and D-10x sound. 

I am very happy with the Verity Audio PO speakers and am greatly enjoying the L-595ASE amp in my main system.  But there is still one box missing on my main rack...

Depending on your price range, You can get an Audiolab 6000CDT that actually sounds good going into a good DAC. They also have a 9000CDT, for more money.  If your budget allows, check out PS Audio or Jays.  Jays is probably the best I’ve ever heard.

All the best.