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A phenomenal new CD transport-Pro-Ject CD Box RS2 transport

I have had in-house for the last week Pro-Ject's new CD Box RS2 transport to review for the website Stereo Times. I was very curious to assess its performance because it uses the Pro 8 drive with the Blue Tiger CD-84 servo card. This drive was developed and built by StreamUnlimited a company started by the original Phillips designers that historically built the finest CD mechanisms. Only two other companies use the StreamUnlimited 8 drive and Blue Tiger CD-84 servo card, their pieces cost $16,000 and $39,000 compared to Pro-Ject's sane price of $3,000!

My reference for the last two years has been the excellent Jay's Audio MK-II transport that had out-performed much more expensive highly regarded transports in my system. Well, across every sonic parameter  (transparency/micro-details-overall dynamics/bottom-end extension/purity of tonality- a much more airy sound-stage with wonderful 3D imaging) compared to the Jay's Audio transport.

That's way I titled this thread a "phenomenal new CD transport" because while not inexpensive, it just might be a bargain based on its performance. Mind you, this superlative level of performance is based on using the switching power supply that Pro-Ject ships the transport with. I have shortly coming a custom 20 watt 3 amp linear power supply from Linear Tube Audio and Pro-Ject's own upgraded power supply to see if the RS2 transport performance will even go to a higher qualitative level of performance.

I'll be writing a full detailed review for Stereo Times in the near future. However, I wanted to share this information to GON members who still spin CDs. I have had numerous CD transports in for evaluation and this just might be the best sounding of all of them.

Teajay (Terry London)




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audiotroy
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Why in this day and age would you bother with a cd transport?

You will get far better sound ripping your cds to a dedicated server

When you rip you are storing a bit perfect copy normal errors from spinning a plastic disc do not occur

And you get the ability to stream new content like tidal and qubuzz

We have found the combination of a greatstored library plus streaming to be the ultimate digital music experience

We would love for you to Try one of our 432Evo music servers

https://youtu.be/m_sYbgFvUOg

Currently 432evo is taking over Europe


Their servers are dedicated roon cores

They use the most advanced low noise intel processor on the market

Comes standard 2 tb ssd

Higher end models have both a seperate clock board and sound card with independent low noise custom s booster power supplies

And models are upgradable you can start with a less expensive server and then upgrade later

The 7.5k aeon is considered a competitor to a 14k reference statement server

The line starts a t3.5k for the standard

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Audio intellect nj
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audiotroy
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Tweak there are tons of ripping companies that will rip your cds for .80 cents a disc you box up the discs and send rhem the discs

You dont have to file them roon Dr oes that for you
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audiotroy
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Riaa you obviously dont read a server can storebit perfect rips

And when ever you read off a hard drive there are no read errors as what happens with optical playback

 so usually a server will sound better because you don't have read errors with a hard drive but you do with optical reading

Not to mention both Tidal and Quobuz offer high resolution un
compressed digital files

You dont need a laptop you can c ontrol a server with your phone e or tablet


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As per promoting our brands the 432Evo won best of sound at Munich hifi show even compared
t o much more expensive taiko extreme and pink faun servers



Dave and troy
Audio intellect nj
Us Importers 432Evo music servers jern loudspeakers mj acoustics subwoofers


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audiotroy
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Riaa we did shootouts with esoterics vs ahigh end server 

Ther will always be read errors with optical no mater the transport You are shooting a laser beam off of a piece of plastic 
Vs loading a bit perfect  copy of the data and loading that data into a ram buffer and precisely sending that data via usb to the dac


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audiotroy
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Riaa we had esoteric the t+awas far better alsowe are streaming ripped cds as well a tidal and qubuzz te ripped cds sounded better then the esotric k01 spinninging  them

We used to sell aurende the innous sounded far better and 432Evo beats the innous

It is a same you dont know anything your crack about t+a shows the the company is considered d to make some of the finest gear on the market

Also kef blades are considered to be fantastic speakers
Your hostiity towards our store is unwarranted 

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You are free to visit th store to señor yourself


Dave and troy
Audio intellect nj
Importers 432Evo music servers
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riaa my store has  1.6 million dollars of display inventory
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we have a 4000 sq foot house which has been tirned into a private store


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