dCS Puccini CD transport noise


Hello,

I recently bought a new Puccini CD/SACD player. Sound quality is outstanding, and, compared to my previous player (Mark Levinson 390S), a vast improvement.
However, I have one issue. The CD mechanism, when playing discs (or with the pause function activated) is quite noisy. It is a combination of a whirring sound (the spinning disc) and a more constant rustling sound. It is clearly audible from my listening position (3.5-4 meters from the player), e.g. when playing piano and choral music (not to speak of late evening listening). I find this rather annoying, especially as the noise comes from a position squarely in the stereo picture (player on a rack between speakers)

What are the experiences of other Puccini owners in this regard?
richterian

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I had one to listen to and it was noisy also but got another one and it was not.

PO3/d03 I had a few different combo's "LARGE money" and was shocked with how noisy the transport was and when I commented about such it was kinda ignored as to say it's okay and the norm, sorry but now for me.

I currently have a MBL 1621a and it's dead quiet like I expect it to be. How does one listen to music at low levels and not get distracted never mind if there happens to be low passage and you hear this, for me I would loose concentration and be distracted by such and ruin the whole experience, this all has me scratcing my head.

It was bad enought during day light hours but when the lights went down it seemed to be magnified, drove me nuts to the point of just turning off my system.

If you go and listen to a live performance you don't hear something whirling "spinning" during a intimate or quiet passage.

Come on you manufactures get you stuff together, you are charging us large for this crap.
Every unit I have heard you can hear when listening to a quiet passage and that's sitting 10 feet away which to me is distracting and taking me out of the moment.

Really leaves me scratching my heard, the money this costs and they can't get this perfected.