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Help with choosing a CD transport

Hi Folks. I'd like your opinions on CD transports that are "Affordable" and or may be unusual choices. I have an Oppo 93 that I like a lot. When ithe 93 got sick for a while I picked up an Audiolab 6000 CDT. The Audiolab is a really nice unit once I got used to slot loading. Good sound and is heavy and apparently well built. I've run it constantly for weeks. My problem is the 93 sounds a little better. My system has some extra exuberance and the Audiolab exacerbates that. It' just a bigger relaxation factor with the 93. 
I wonder if there are some other blue ray players out there or CD players that also offer good performance as a CD transport. The 6000 was $550. In retrospect I could have gotten a pretty food CD player and used it as a transport all things being equal. Sony has some blue ray players with digital coax out for $100. Might be a sleeper.
I have considered the Cambridge transport but if you look at the on line reviews for Cambridge equipment they seem to have more than their share of reliability problems. I auditioned their stereo receiver and it was DOA. Had to get a replacement. 
Any ideas, opinions or suggestions. Thanks in advance. 
fredcdobbs

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Thanks. I am comparing the 93 and the 6000 as transports only with Schiit Gugnier Multibit DAC. 
I have several Coax cables as I agree the difference can be significant. A now have a one meter length of Kimber D60, also a 30 and a Pangea cable selling for about $95. I expected nothing from the Pangea (Audio Advisor) and was well surprised because it added a lot of flushing out that was needed. Very good as are the two Kimbers. Just different flavors. These two inexpensive cables at around a hundred bucks sound better than two cables in the $350 range that I returned. Both were a bit blanched and lacked the fulness and heft of real music. 
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