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Reference Transports: An overall perspective

Teajay did a great job by starting a threat called "Reference DACS: An overall perspective."
I thought it might be beneficial to start a similar thread on transports.
Unfortunately I really have nothing much to say; I just hoped to get the ball rolling.

I'll start by throwing out a few names and a question:

Zanden 2000
CEC TL-0X
Metronome Kalista; T2-i Signature; and T2-A
Esoteric P-01; and P-03(?)
EMM Labs CDSD
47Labs PiTracer
Weiss Jason
Accustic Arts Drive 1
Ensemble Dirondo
Wadia 270se

I know that there are very few companies that actually make the drives themselves. The few I know about are:
Philips
TEAC
Sanyo/CEC

Do the various Philips drives or the TEAC VRDS transport mechanism each have a particular sonic signature regardless of which maunufacturer uses them in their designs?
exlibris

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mrtennis
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hi grateful:

i too have the ps audio transport. its advantage is that the disc disc is fed from ram to the dac. it does not spin while you are listening to the music.

it is , however, highly sensitive to the digital link.

it is hard to judge the sonic attributes of the pwt because there is a dac connected to it. when i connect a tube dac i hear a tube like soun, wheras, when i use the ps audio perfect wave dac, the sound is very much as you describe.

i use a harmonic tech hdmi digital cable with the ps audio dac and coax with a tube dac.
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