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

Another excellent choice for playing Redbook CDs would be a Naim CDi.  I still have my late Dad's and it's a great sounding CD player which can be had for around a  $1000US in nice condition. Naim no longer repairs them but I believe that there are aftermarket companies that do. Best of luck with your search for a CD player. 👍

The Shanling ET3 has been a recent, well regarded choice.

Shanling ET3 CD Transport

Did you finally find what you are looking for.

Exact same situation here, moon 260d feeding a hugo mscaler and tt2.

I realized that the 260d is good but maybe is a bottleneck in my system. Absolutely no differences on the same songs switching from the 260d to an Aurender n150 streamer, so very strange….always thought a transport would be better than a stream. So 260d bottleneck ?

did you finally compare something to the 260d and what did you find out ?

The 260d + M Scaler + TT2 are now in a second system and sound fantastic.  I think that the 260d is a very capable transport.

For my main system I bought the Luxman D-10x CDP.  It was very expensive but it sounds sublime as a CDP and is built like a tank.  I am sure it will serve me well for many years as I still listen cds as opposed to streaming.

I may try an ifi Zen streamer into either the D-10x as a DAC or the M scaler/tt2 in my other system.

If you get a Zen Stream I highly recommend not using Wi-Fi (at the very least use a Wi-Fi extender or Mesh and run an Ethernet cable from that to the Zen) and getting an upgraded power supply.