CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

@baylinor 

I can only tell you about what I know. I used to have a Cambridge transport and went to a Jay's CDT2-MK3. The difference is simply phenomenal. In this case you get what you pay for is real.

That's fascinating. I wonder exactly what is going on there to make such a difference? The DAC must be getting a different signal, and I'd guess it has to be a more accurate one with the better transport, or at least one that is somehow better suited to that DAC. 

@vthokie83

So all those high quality components and the overall build quality is somehow getting better information to the DAC. What surprises me about this is the fact that cheap transports have reliably delivered photos, videos, software, and other digital data to my computer for years with rarely a case of corrupted data. So there should be a way to insert something between a cheap transport and a good DAC that would be able to buffer the stream off the transport, make sure it’s error corrected, and then distribute it cleanly to the DAC, which apparently cannot properly buffer and error correct the stream of data it’s getting on its own. It sounds like also doesn't have it's own internal clock for d/a conversion. Is that true? It seems the DAC is putting an unnecessary burden on the transport and perhaps cables and connection fittings by lacking some normal digital data receiving functions. I recently solved some glitchy sounds I was hearing in my online streaming playback by increasing the buffer time. There’s a tiny bit more lag now between when I hit play and when the music actually starts but it’s still too fast for me to notice.