CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports

Audiotroy most of the time I agree with you. But with a good transport and a good DAC  And a nice xrcd ? You can’t just beat this  easy.

Agree.  My Aurender N200 sounds great but not as good as CDs when comparing the two with 44.1k material. 

@jayctoy + 1

I've heard it myself that CDs can sound much better than streaming. It was via a Bricasti transport unfortunately not in my price range. But is was special. 

@no_regrets I'm a lousy test case- I used an Oppo briefly as a transport and my CD listening is probably 5% of what I hear- I usually only fire up a CD of something that is impossible to get on LP or is crazy expensive and use it as a basis to decide whether to spend on the LP.  

You are smart to ask questions of owners, though. Audio Union, the US distributor, has been solid. Fast turnaround, I replaced a belt, simply b/c I hadn't used the thing in a while. It was shipped fast. 

Ask me about private label jazz on LP and I could probably ramble on. But, here, that's all I got for you. Good luck. I know people respect Esoteric, high end TEAC, but my question is service. Is that an issue or time consuming?  I think it is important to have somebody knowledgeable on the ground where you are located. That's been my experience with a lot of gear.