Differences between cd transports?


Howdy,I borrowed a dedicated CD transport (Musical Fidelity) from a friend. I have found that music sounds much better with his transport than with the CD player I’ve been using to spin CDs. In both cases, I am using exactly the same DAC via the optical out connection from the transport and the CD player. So: is there any rational reason that, using the same digital to analog converter, one CD spinner should sound much better than another?Thanks!  
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Showing 1 response by edstrelow

Curious the number of persons who want to argue about the merits of cable vs toslink even though the initial poster is using toslink with both transports.  So this is irrelevant. 

That said, the cable crowd seem to think there is only one kind of toslink,  when there is a wide range. Yes a $2.00 toslink may sound worse than a $100.00 cable.  I personally like Wireworld Toslink  which was about $80.00.