Nice pickup . Fill us in when you do the comparison.
PS Audio CD Transport - fun story!
Found the PS Audio Lambda CD Transport in Goodwill store for $59.00!!!
I guess this was almost $1800 back in 1992 or thereabouts?!
The matching DAC was sitting right there too but I rejected it!
Online review from back then said the DAC was very good for the price but there were one or two better ones available elsewhere. I figured with the subsequent 30 years there must be A LOT of better ones by now!? Don't tell me if I made the wrong decision! :)
So anyways, sounds mostly great from what I can tell. I miss having no remote. The CD drawer is a bit noisy.
Found the remote on Ebay! It's on its way home now! I did have to add $100 to what it is really worth, but I will forget about that soon enough.
An Ebay seller in Germany even has a plastic gear available to rebuild the CD drawer. Once 10 cents, now 25 Euros, haha! Requires some thought, but I haven't ruled it out yet!
So with the remote I may be able to do a better A-B test vs. my Marantz CD player that is perhaps 10 years old.
I am hoping the PS can win. At least I am the only kid on the block who has one!
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As a preface to CD replay, I’ll point you to my CD Replay: A Preface article where I get into some of the back story behind playing CDs from an experiential perspective. I continue this story in my review of the Cambridge Audio CXC CD Transport, where I shared, In the end, playing CDs strikes me as a lifestyle choice. Spending time with the Cambridge CXC was a very pleasant reminder that real time and attention spent listening to music pays dividends and sometimes having less to choose from makes the experience more thoughtful. My CC Pay |