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Audio Research Source - CD3 mkII, CD5

I noticed on the arcdb.ws website the CD3 mkII as "discontinued" in 2008, but nothing about this is shown on the ARC website. The arcdb.ws website also shows a new CD5 as starting production in 2008, but again nothing on the ARC website - though the ARC website is hardly an up-to-date source for information.

If the CD3 mkII is to be dropped, that would indeed leave a hole in the "notch-below-reference-class" offering for a digital source.

Has anyone heard any rumors regarding ARC source components?
bobvin

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will the 5 be a top loader as well?
and yes, indeed it is hard to imagine that a CD5 will be a big step up from CD3MkII. I doubt there were any major advancements in digital since the introduction of the MkII version of CD3. But we shall wait and find out!
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Rugy, CD7 should be some much better than the Transporter. My CD3MkII basically blew it away.
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Mtdking, it seems that you've had a bad experience with CD7 and the technical problems you encountered with the unit had big impact on your decision making. I can not really imagine what Modwright transporter should sound like to be better than CD7, because the unmodded one was not even half as good as my CD3. But, every system is different, so we should take into account system synergy and how different we all hear things.
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