New EMM LABS transport

It is a lot. But I believe it uses the latest transport.

just hooked it up and right out of the box seems to be more

refined lower noise floor darker background more details

more musical than the phillips or maybe its just my

immagination in reality whats the difference if i perceive

these improvements thats all that matters

Ted, Thanks for your impressions. Please keep us posted as you have more time with it.
Thanks, Frank

For someone like myself who wants to go with the emm labs DCC2, I am considering buying a used emm labs Phillips SACD1000 (prices range 1500-1695) vs. the new emm labs CDSD. Other than eventual failure of the used emm labs SACD1000, can anyone comment on definite advantages spending the extra 5500 dollars or so up front for the new CDSD ?

I would say for insurance purposes (Philips failures) at least you know you can get the CDSD fixed if something goes wrong.

Pretty soon the cost will add up to what it cost to buy a new CDSD. Plus the time of being with out the Meitner optical transport if something went wrong. With all the failures (although mine never gave me problems) it was an easy decision to make the switch.

I hope the person who I sold my Philips to has the same performance with it as I did.

Michael