Best high end multi-disc player as transport?

This does seem to be an unfilled niche in the audio world, and probably why so many tweakers exist to modify existing carousel players. I'd probably start with one of the Sony carousel players(the 555 maybe?) that does SACD multichannel and have someone like Stan Warren or Dan Wright modify it for a few hundred bucks into a killer transport that would probably compete very favorably against the high-dollar units mentioned above. Best of luck.

Tim

Interesting. So how do you get a hold of those people who do modifications?

I don't know offhand, but if you do a search here you'll likely be able to find them with a little effort. Anyone else know how to get in touch with Stan Warren or Dan Wright? You can also check out Ric Schultz's website at www.tweakaudio.com. He offers some interesting thoughts on upgrades, but I'm not sure what the status is on his latest mods.

Cal Labs also made a CLD-10 (without an internal dac)

Check the sight greatnorthernsound.com for mods.