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In Reply to: "I was becoming disenchanted with my Goldmund, whose transport was giving me fits" posted by Mudshark on March 5, 2007 at 15:36:56:
I'm not sure why so many SACD transports have noise and reliability problems. The only that really doesn't is Esoteric's VRDS-NEO. Still, it's not whisper-quiet, either, but you have to have your ears close to hear it.The problems with the Goldmund were twofold: (1) You could actually hear the transport from a few feet away. IMO, that is absolutely unacceptable on a 36k player. I sent the unit back to Goldmund, which replaced the transport. The noise lessened a bit, but I could still hear it when the room was perfectly quiet. (2) When the player moved to the next track on a CD, there was an audible clicking noise, as if the transport was trying to find the next track. It was quite annoying. Anyway, I quickly tired of it and decided to move on.
In my experience, Pioneer and Philips SACD mechanisms are fairly noisy. Even when a manufacturer modifies them to quiet them down (such as EMM, Audio Aero, and others), they're still pretty audible--at least to my bat ears. :)
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