New, Very Interesting CD Transport

Agon member vonhelmholtz didn't like the Audiolab 6000CDT, while member creativepart did. Two subjective impressions based upon how a particular transport sounded in two dissimilar systems. Not good enough to stand up in a court of law!

The Shanling ET3 CD transport looks more impressive than I initially thought with a cnc machined case, Philips transport w/ Sanyo laser, and hi-res digital output.

https://en.shanling.com/article-IntroET3.html

creativepart

I hope you know I was not trying to be negative about the unit. I don’t stream, understand little about streaming, so I focused on my needs, ignoring cost comparisons.

I have room for only 1 unit in my system, thus I want it to have both CD and SACD lasers, and the option of transport or play, better yet simultaneous choice to compare this to that, my friends bring their equipment here occasionally.

IF it's just transport, why does it upscale to Hi-Rez PCM and DSD, wouldn't that occur further down the chain?

I owned a Shanling CD player 15 years or so ago.   I thought it looked “cool” with the blue lights on the tubes and such.   It was a very poorly made player, broke twice and was actually gaudy looking.   I advertised it here for sale as a “parts only player” and it sold almost as soon as I placed the ad. I saw a used one at a high end store in Framingham and the owner told me that he wouldn’t sell it to me since he knows me. He actually told me to purchase a used Walkman, said it sounded better.  Lol.