Schiit CD Transport on the way soon.

Any opinions on reliability and experience Cambridge customer service?

Yeah, I had one, it was good better than the other cheap UK slot loaded other one that some like here, even started a thread on it here for memory.
But an old Teac VRDS-7 that I gutted the dac out of, to make it a dedicated transport sounded much better. And on the scope had a far better squarer cleaner eye pattern. 


Cheers George

I hope it’s a minimalist design like the 47 Laboratory Flatfish CD transport

 Don’t think so, they’ve already said something about it being able to give out a few different output configurations, that’s why the delay probably, as I think it was either the usb or hdmi a while back that was giving troubles with certain dacs.
I haven’t listen to it all but the post above yours of mine has more info in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt8u9stoKQ

Cheers George

More info on the Schiit transport, starts at the 27min 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFt8u9stoKQ

Cheers George

It’s like Jaguar and their XK-E back in the days. Enzo Ferrari said it was the most beautiful car ever designed and they only fetch a fraction of what a used Ferrari would, due to so many being made compared to the relative scarcity of Ferraris.

XK-E one of the most beautiful car made https://ibb.co/CJkGn3j
Beaten only by the XJ13 https://ibb.co/WvhTBX4    https://ibb.co/B2dYsgx

Great: Keep on them and send another email if they don't reply, I hanging to see what response you get.

Cheers George

There it is! 48th min, and still coming 😵

Any of you Yanks got any more info on the Schiit Urd progress, or anything else about it??

Cheers George

Yeah!!! I'm hanging for it too.

Cheers George

More info on the coming Schiit Urd CD transport posted 4 days ago by Mike Moffat..

Baldr (Mike Moffat Sponsor:) Schiit Audio
Please forgive me if any of this seems redundant or condescending. Prior art transports require physical media in the form of a CD and convert it to S/PDIF output, either TOS, coax, or both. The Urd converts the physical media data to S/PDIF coax and USB. In addition there is an additional USB input so that the client may choose between said USB input or the CD playing in the transport. Therefore the input sockets are the USB (Unison) and the equivalent of a socket, the data on the CD which is playing. The output sockets are S/PDIF (coax) and USB (Unison).

Now the Unison USB input we know works with every USB output that Schiit users have. Making the USB out work with all USB inputs we could find was by far and away the most time consuming of the development process of the Unison USB input. On the URD we also have a Unison USB output. This faces a similar design challenge in that we need to make the Unison USB output work with all USB inputs we can find.

To make this process move along faster, we have built a simple USB switch, with two switchable Unison USB C inputs and one Unison USB C output. The idea is we send these out to Beta evaluators before we send out Beta transports to verify that they may work with as large a sample of D/A converters as possible. It will do little good if the transports’ USB out do not function with untested D/A converters.

Once we are satisfied that we work with most/all of the D/A converters in the wild. We may begin to send Urd Beta units out in the field.

I hope the above may be useful.

Cheers George

Found this posted by Schiit owner Jason Stoddard two days ago. The "URD" he mentions is the name of the "new" Schiit transport with Unison USB board .

https://ibb.co/LhG4W5p
https://ibb.co/JmxJDjp

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So, its been a while. Any sign of this Schitt transport?

Yeah I thought the same, so a couple of days ago asking when it’s going to be a become a reality. And got this back. Yes, No, who knows!!!
Cheers George

Hi George,
I’m sorry but strict employee confidentiality agreements prevent me from commenting or speculating on future products that might/might not be in development.
Best, Daniel

Is it mentioned whether there will be a remote?

Have to, I don’t know of any even going back to the first CD that didn’t have one.
Maybe basic one though, Schiit’s not known for pandering to "glitz queens" with wow factor looks, led’s and read outs, they just concentrate on what sounds good. 

Cheers George

Hope it sounds as good as the new Hegel Mohican CD transport, which in an a/b  Darko prefers by a lot over the $3K Mytec Brooklyn Bridge streamer.
https://youtu.be/vgmzh77KMCU

Cheers George

It's designed manufactured by Schiit California, which is part owned by Mike Moffat, if he had anything to do with it, which is very likely. He was the brain trust behind everything good that came from Theta Digital back in the day they ruled the digital domain.

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Anyone heard anything about the RRP for it yet? Hope they keep it under $1k

On another site it’s rumoured to have this transport laser/mech, if so looks like it could output SACD (dsd)
https://45db3c5b-5b34-44dd-959a-e407b22b10ae.filesusr.com/ugd/a83b4d_bd03da721f94481582667f1ab980f2c...

The SANYO SF-HD850 laser looks to be a top model for Sanyo lasers.

This CD player uses it https://6moons.com/audioreview_articles/goldnote9/2/ in the article they said the same transport laser/mech is also used in the $20K DCS Rossini transport!!!!!!!!!

Stereophile: DCS Rossini
The front-loading CD mechanism is the Stream Unlimited JPL-2800 SilverStrike.

https://www.stereophile.com/content/dcs-rossini-player-rossini-clock

Also in this Bryston BCD-3
https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/digital-reviews/cd-player-reviews/bryston-bcd-3-cd-player/

And someone said it also used in this Wadia CD S7i
https://www.hifi-advice.com/blog/review/digital-reviews/cd-player-reviews/wadia-s7i/

Cheers George

Schiit's having a great year.

Apparently a very good year, it goes to show Schiit make a great sounding products that are far cheaper than the more expensive stuff which has magnetic appeal to the "glitz queens" that love to put their equipment between the speakers to show it off and gaze at it, trouble is it screws up the imaging bad, anything between the speakers does.
 
And paying less for good sound quality, and not paying as much for the looks, is their sales criteria.
I'm all for it, as you listen with the ears and watch the imaging with your eyes, and if there's something in front of you "glitzing away madly", your not listen or watching the music's imaging 

Cheers George 

Knowing Schiit, you'll get the basics, even the looks, and the larger manufacturing percentage costs will be spent in making sound good. And that's ok with me.

Cheers George

Hope the spinning speed will be correct!

Hard to get that wrong, unless done deliberately, then you can just watch the time counter seconds an compare it to your phone world timer. 

Cheers George 

Iam not sure if the tube output is being use as transport.

There's no tubes involved when using it as a transport, they may be lit up, the digital process is not using them at all.

Cheers George 

Hey abraxalito, slumming it again?

Yes that USB is suppose to be USB-c version also. No I2S because there's too many variation of it, but aes/ebu, rca, and toslink as well as the USB-c, from what I gather.
And if you look in the video the prototype looks to have 2 or 3 double core transformers from what I can make out. 
And no slot load computer mech thank god, but a proper Philips? tray mech/laser
https://ibb.co/dDdLZKL
https://ibb.co/SBrW7z7
https://ibb.co/F60Q3xs

Cheers George