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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Very nice. The DV 6400 is not a high-end model. The P.S. Audio will probably sound better.

 

Happy Listening!

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