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RE: What's the Best CD/DVD player from the past to be used as CD transport?

I never myself understood how the transport could even affect the sound. If the DAC is buffering the input from the source it could correct any timing errors, misreads, whatever in real time, before it ever gets decoded. As long as the transport reads the bits it shouldn't matter. And as most of us did, we ripped the CDs to our computers and did away with the transport. Now with streaming and downloads, who needs them? The bitrate of a CD is so low by computer standards. I used to argue this on the forums, but always got shouted down by the audiophools, and this was long before streaming/downloads took over. The digital is bit perfect or it doesn't work, but the analog needs to have timing, pitch and amplitude correct to sound good, otherwise you'll just get bad sound.

Only my bluray still acts as a transport but it never sees any use for music anymore, even though I bought the Oppo for music. I also have a 10 year old iMac that has a DVD drive in it that my son uses when he buys discs, something I actually don't understand myself that he still buys them. I'm an old fart and stopped buying CDs years ago, but still buy vinyl.

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