I was playing Gaucho SACD by steely Dan .This is a copy I just received from Acoustic sounds. Playing with my Marantz SA 10 sacd player. It sounds musically amazing. I ask myself if I go streaming? How much do I spend to buy streamer and dac to beat my sa10 performance?
CEC Belt Drive CD Transports vs Jay's Audio CD Transports
Hello,
I currently have a new LTA Aero Dac on order. I have a feeling that I will be soon be ordering a new CD Transport to go with the new Dac and am trying to narrow down the options.
I am strongly considering either the Jay's CDT2MK3/CDT3MK3; but would also like to hear more about the CEC TL5 and the CEC TL-2N belt drive transports.
I'm curious if anyone has had the opportunity to compare CEC with the Jay's?
I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences - whether they be good or bad before I decide to pull the trigger.
Thank you and best wishes to you all!
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In my system my Melco CD transport thru the Melco N50 server into a heavily modded Teac NT-505 dac sounds better than the Melco N50 server thru the same dac. Both sound better than Qobuz streaming through the same DAC. If I gave them number ratings it would be 95, 92, 89. All three sound really good but listeng to the same songs on these three ways of reproducing sonics is revealing. |
Over some 10 - 20 years ago I had a CEC belt drive. Belt replacement was frequent and expensive from CEC. I found the same size from a on line O ring company. Ive owned quite a few CD player/transports since then including 2 Raysonics 168/228. For the last 2+ years I had a Audiolab CDT6000 Nice used ~ $350, but about a year ago I read a AG thread about the Shanling ET3 and began researching it. Recently I found a used one on Amazon from recognized factory dealer, and noticed Prime has a 6 month no interest payment deal so I pulled the trigger. Within 20 hours there was no comparison to the 6000, but wait there’s more which gets to another part of this thread: power supplies, Enter Vera-Fi Audio LLC Snubway Noise Defender $295, with excellent customer comments, from people with very nice systems and high quality power conditioners. I have a 20 amp dedicated line + a Core Power 1800 PLC, but the Subway took my system to a whole new place. Several customers also added the Master Class Line Conditioner and some the Snub Station $599 IMO/E Shanling has rewritten what can be expected form < $1000 transports, but the icing for me was adding the Snubway |
@tweak1 Introducing the Snubway into the picture has nothing to do with the topic of this thread, or the performance of any transport for that matter. |
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