New, Very Interesting CD Transport

I’m having a more difficult time refuting ‘71’s cheap CD player claim than his stance on power cords. I used a cheap drive and software that compares results to others that have ripped the same CD to store a bit perfect copy on my Aurender and that copy compares to Qobuz streaming. This does use an error checking step that isn’t available with a player. I always thought that cheap transports provided error prone reads, or more transmission errors, but not sure that this is always the case.

I’ll note that the review posted above is limited to a review of features and is pretty limited should you be using this review in order to make a purchasing decision. On another topic, I just received two Chinese made rice storage bins and I can report that they each store 15Kg of rice, but no Wi-Fi, or USB functionality.

We each have a bias based upon experience.  My bias is based upon my purchase of an Audiolab 6000CDT, which isn’t anyone’s idea of the best transport.  I just didn’t like what I heard.  Fast forward to a major upgrade of DAC and the purchase of an Aurender N20 and my full CD collection now resides on the Aurender and the better CDs sound quite musical and really didn’t leave me wanting more.  So, my bias with regards to digital is to put the money into a great DAC and streamer/server.  That said, perhaps someday one of you will bring over a transport that puts my streamed files to shame.

’71’ is certainly the resident skeptic.  I know that his power cable skepticism comes from a decades old dealers PC comparison.  I suspect his bits are bits declaration has a basis in his experience.  So, @jasonbourne71 a true upgrade to ‘52’, what past experiences/events have you convinced that inexpensive transports provide, or can provide equivalent performance to more exotic offerings?