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In Reply to: RE: Cheap CD Player as Transport Questions posted by hahax@verizon.net on March 19, 2014 at 20:40:56
If digital out is digital out, how does the transport in any way effect the bits coming off the disc when sending it to the outboard DAC? If the DAC re-times the signal and reduces jitter, what in effect could a better transport possibly do to make the signal any better? I am getting a Bryston BDA-2 and plan on hooking up either my Sony SCD-XA5400ES or a Luxman D-112 CD player to the unit.
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Braxus,
A very good question indeed!
I'm just a music lover first and a gearhead a distant second and have wondered about that. It would be great if a kind and knowledgeable Inmate would post a short explanation here.
Logic tells me that the Philips disc transport in my (built like a tank) Jolida JD 100 CD player when used strictly as a transport should do a fine job of supplying a signal to my Audio Note Kit DAC 2.1B as it seems to do when I've been listening to the this combination over the last couple of months. What (in reality) am I missing by not going to a more "high end" transport?
Cheers,
Al
A friend of mine used the Jolida JD 100 as a CD player, and subsequently as a transport for a DAC - using the same sound reasoning you put forth. I advised him to do so as well.He then bought a Musical Fidelity-M1 CDT transport and asked me to come listen. I told him I wanted to listen to the JD-100 first. When I arrived the JD 100 had been playing for several hours. I listened to it for a while; it sounded good, as it always had. Then he put in the M1 CDT and inserted a disc. A few minutes into the song, I looked over at him and laughed. Cold, with no run-in, it was so obviously better; all I could do was laugh.
That's all I needed to hear.
Edits: 04/06/14
Do you know what transport Musical Fidelity-M1 CDT uses? Thanks.
--Ze'ev
No I do not. Perhaps it can be identified from the picture below. You may want to contact MF and ask them (see link below the picture).
Thanks.
--Ze'ev
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