Look into a Sony Cdp-xa20es for a player or transport, one up on Agon right now for $265.00, or a Pioneer Pd-65 also on Agon right now also in your budget. Good luck
CD player with quiet transport?
I recently purchased a Toshiba SD 4800 DVD player, which I was planning to use mainly for two channel audio listening. Unfortunately I find the transport noise to be unacceptably loud for classical recordings. I am a total newby in the audio world - would I have been better off buying a dedicated CD player, and could somebody recommend me a very quiet machine that doesn't cost the earth - preferably under $200, or am I being unrealistic here?
Alternatively, is there anything I could do to make the SD 4800 more quiet?
As an aside, I am using the SD 4800 (described as having quiet transport on Audioreviews.com) with a Nak AV-500, which according to Audioreviews.com suffers from a noisy fan. The noisy fan is a total joke. There is no chance to hear the fan even in quietest passages of Holst's The Planets - and certainly not while the SD 4800 is busy humming away.
Many thanks
Alternatively, is there anything I could do to make the SD 4800 more quiet?
As an aside, I am using the SD 4800 (described as having quiet transport on Audioreviews.com) with a Nak AV-500, which according to Audioreviews.com suffers from a noisy fan. The noisy fan is a total joke. There is no chance to hear the fan even in quietest passages of Holst's The Planets - and certainly not while the SD 4800 is busy humming away.
Many thanks