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I’m starting to look into transports and thought this information about drive history on the Primare site would be of interest.  Being curious about CD drives and their potential reliability it came up in searching the TEAC 5020 drive (DD35).

 

I recently tried a CA CXC V2 and it worked for about a week then started skipping and being none responsive when being fed new discs (and various others).  It sounded really nice so I’ve got the bug to move to a transport – I’m just not sure I want to try another CA and don’t like slot loading (Audiolab).

 

Moon just raised their prices – so I’m thinking either Jays Audio, Primare DD35, or CEC TL5.  Crutchfield carries Primare so a 60-day return policy is an option I wouldn’t have with others.

 

Are there other transports in the sub $2.5k range?

 

Mike

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Showing 1 response by ghdprentice

Consider getting a streamer instead. Then no mechanical concerns, and access to nearly infinite music for the cost of one CD per month.

 

CD player is a physical transport to read files, and a streamer to the DAC in one box.

 
In my system my streamer sounds exactly the same (on red book CDs) and better on the ubiquitous music available in high Rez files. So the question I cannot answer, is assuming your budget and you would prefer a one box solution is there a single box streamer that would sound as good or better than a CD player of the same cost? Or would say $3K be required?