In Reply to: What's the Best CD/DVD player from the past to be used as CD transport? posted by Ki Choi on February 4, 2017 at 11:12:58:
I have to agree that if you can find a good dedicated transport, then that will give you the best performance. I am personally an advocate of more vintage transports, and of as high a quality as you can find (that is consistent with the rest of your system).
Over time I have discovered (on my system, to my ears) that the more processing the source and signal has, the less it sounds like music. Precise perhaps, but that is not the same as musical. If you consider the amount of processing that goes on in a new 'store then play' transport, the music has been totally homogenized. I gather thought was that that the disc reading issues with newer transports could be offset with lots of post processing. Seems that a less than ideal read can only be patched up so much.
Just an alternate perspective. My objective has always to get my system to sound as much as possible like real music (to me). There are alternate, totally fine objectives, and certainly other ears that hear things differently.
regards -- Roger
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