What is the best transport?

Happy New Year to all! The update as to what I have done and am currently doing is as follows:

1.Bought a PS Audio PWT
2.Auditioned an Esoteric P-03 and had a shoot out with the PWT.
3.The Esoteric was returned to the dealer. I could not hear a $15K difference.
4.I am in the waiting period for delivery of a Music Vault server from Sound Science.

A friend of mine bought a Music Vault server and his experience with Neal Van Berg has been exemplary with regard to installation and start up. SQ may/may not meet my expectation. At the least I have gotten off the snide and am inching forward with something different .

The old adage - " suck it and see " is where I have landed.

How are you gonna interface your server with the DAC ?

The Audio Note has a AES/EBU input. Neal van Berg is providing the digital cable.

Changeout: you're gonna have a tuff time finding a better sounding transport at anywhere near the price of the pwt. thought so 3 years ago when i got the thing and still think so today. even though my pc set/up sounds great (pwdII/bridge), i still go back to the pwt for critical listening. it really is a special piece of gear. wish it wasn't!....i'd love to sell it to pursue other shiny toys. could pack away all my disc's for good as well.

you made a good choice imho. enjoy!

I agree with Levy03 in that the PWT is really an exceptional product that offers very high quality sound.It does`nt surprise me the the PWT competes so well with the much more costly Esoteric.The PWT offers 'very high' value and will be difficult(not impossible) to top.It seems Changeout trusted his ears and was`nt swayed by the price tag psychology.The PWT and Yamamoto DAC combined is just devine and very involving.
Regards,