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I have Luxman DA06 DAC and want to buy a new transport to partner with it.
Any recommendation under USD10000?
Thank you for your suggestion.
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When available the Vicol Audio Quantum CD Transport.
Hi Sinhoi1,
I am a little surprised at the recommendations in this thread, as they do not appear to match the price level / performance that is the subject of your post. Assuming your price limit is retail new price, then checkout the MBL 1521 and Esoteric P-5 - the Esoteric in particular should be a good match with the Luxman. If you are looking at $10k used price, then you can pretty much pick some state of the art transports - MBL 1621, CEC TL-0, Esoteric P-02, etc.
Best of luck.
My most concern is that the business of CD player manufacturing is on the downtrend. In this respect, expensive CD player may be beyond repair due to lack of spare parts for replacement few years later.
In case the CD player cannot be repaired, the defective CD player(no matter how expensive it was) will end up to be a mere metal scrap!
I share your concerns. To that end I have purchased and stored a spare unit for my CD deck. The decks are Sony 7700 DVD/CD players, an excellent machine as a CD deck. Buy a few! Save the kilobucks for buying some CD's and records.
Thanks! for sharing- Bear.
Best bang for the buck for anything under $10,000. Superb customer service, too!
-RW-
The OPPO BDP-105D is about the most versatile piece of digital playback equipment I've ever seen. It plays just about all digital formats including SACD. I have most of my music stored on high-capacity USB flash drives that plug directly into the OPPO's three USB A ports. It can also be used as an external USB DAC to connect a computer music server. Check it out at the link below.
A wise approach, 2 box units.
One pays a big price if their transport section goes out with an all in one box.
The VRDS-NEO is likely the greatest tank transport that you can buy. So extremely overbuilt; it should last longer than anything out there, by far. Since it's been licensed to 3rd party manufacturers, you should be able to get parts for it pretty far into the future.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
would love to pick up one on the used market as it had the VRDS-NEO "VMK-5" transport mechanism as well as Cirrus Logic's CS4398 which IMNSHO is a nice relaxed sounding DAC.
From my perspective: sinking major dollars into a transport for SACDs, DVD-As, just isn't worth the better quality for 50 discs, - where I only really care about 20 of those...
My SACDs blow away any DSD digital files, but redbook digital files are almost identical to redbook CDs.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Definitely a memory-player.MSB or PS.Bought the Data 4 CD and was glad I did.Big upgrade in sonics and uses a ROM drive.
Tom:cat
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I have an Audio Note CDII transport. Really like it
Alan
I don't know which transport mechanism they use but I prefer them much more so than Teac/Esoteric transports I had.
If I were looking at digital separates, Audio Note and 47Labs are the ones that I found sound natural.
The YBA PASSION CD430 CD PLAYER uses a top quality top-loading PHILIPS CDM-Pro2 transport, you can always use it as a player and in your price range. A second is Audio Note Level 2 top-loading with same transport as in the above. If you decide on either one make sure you buy a spare transport because they are no longer made.
t.
On the CD transport thread below I mentioned Cambridge Audio is selling a dedicated transport through Audio Advisor that sells for $ 500.00. Probably a good unit, haven't heard it though.
Best regards, Ralph
PS Audio Memory Player at $4K. It replaced my dead dCS Verdi and I'm quite happy with it.
The PS Audio Memory Transport would be my first choice if I could afford it.
I still use a PS Audio Lambda.
McIntosh MCT450 - around US$4K gets good reviews.Woo Audio - around US$1.2K highly rated and back in production again. Thinking about this one myself.
Edits: 12/10/15
I second the Woo Audio. Recently purchased the transport and DAC incredible sound!!!
Could use a SS hard drive to store/supply FLAC files to the DAC ?
NO moving parts.
Edits: 12/10/15
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