CD TRANSPORT THAT MAKES AN AUDIBLE DIFFERENCE

I'd like to chime in here. After having several communications with Charles1dad I purchased an RS2T and am very pleased with that transport, I have not had any issues with it.

I have the Jay’ Audio Transport MK2. I have not had it long but it does sound very good. It does not make badly recorded CDs sound better, which initially misled me to thinking the transport was not giving me good audio results, but it makes very good CD recordings sound fantastic. So it very much reveals what your source material gives you. It sounds better than my Rega Apollo or older ES Sony CD player feeding a good DAC. That is my two cents

Chiming in on this discussion. I was using an Onkyo 7030 CDP as a transport and felt like it was pretty blah.

I heard about the Cambridge Audio CXC Transport and as luck would have it one showed up locally the next day for sale at under $300.

I grabbed it and WOW. I'm blown away with the improvement. Who knew those 800 CDs in my attic could sound so good.

I realize the CXC is one of the less expensive transports out there - I'm likely going to have to upgrade to the Audiolab 9000CDT or Jay’s Audio CDT2-MK3.

To make a short story long - I brought down 13 boxes of CDs from the attic and picked the 250 or so most relevant CDs to put on a revised shelf unit in my "office."

I've been streaming Qobuz for the past couple of years and super happy - but this is better right now.

I posted my comment on CD Transports just 12-short days ago. And, while I really liked the Cambridge Audio CXC quite a bit, I just purchased an Audiolab 6000CDT to compare it with. And the verdict is that the Audiolab is the way to go.

This CDT has a way with digital that makes it so listenable, so layered and just right.

In that older post ^above this one I was blown away by the CXC, so now it would be silly to say the Audiolab has blown me further away. But it is a fine and noticeable improvement, yet again.