best transport for ... 2008?

Well Soc, old chum, I'd be real interested in the new PS Audio Perfect Wave Transport. It's a memory transport that can hook to the internet, has great features and performance and is priced around $1500. It should be out in a couple of months if all goes as planned.

Denon DVD/SACD?

The best transport 2008? Well, is NO transport IMO. Rip your CDs to your laptop, get a "Spoiler" USB DAC from Empirical Audio and enjoy. Or if you want to save money and use your own DAC, get a Trends Audio or Hagerman USB/ AES/EBU converter, link it between DAC and laptop and let it rip with foobar. You'll be amazed.....
(I use Zanden and DCS transports by the way )
Cheers,
Detlof

I switched to computer hard drives about 5 years ago and am thrilled with the results. The key for me was using an Empirical Offramp turbo 2 ( or Freeway 2).We are on the cusp of several new sampleing rates, many hi rez downloads, and free upsampler's. For 1k for the computer, $700 for the Freeway, and a couple hundred for a monitor, you are ready to play music now and future proof(almost) for later. Like to record your vinyl at 24/96, burn cd's for your car, transfer music to a second system, all no problem. We don't have to be limited to 16/44 anymore. Have fun!

iWadia under $400
plus iPod $300

im really interested in the perfect wave as well. I wonder if it will have digi coax out or just hdmi. In which case you y ou may need an hdmi dac. I think it will be a great offering if it can play flac from a hd.

the oppo 980 dvd-cd player is used in stereophile
also I have one modified with all top components and the best commercial clock the dexa clock for $800 and realy makes this a excellent transport and decent player if needed.