I have a friend who has a ARC CD-1 which uses an earlier version of the Philips transport and has been having severe tracking problems with it. Acording to ARC, the grease in the mechanism hardens with age. The only remedy is to replace the transport mechanism which would cost nearly as much as the player is worth. Hopefully these problems are not as severe with the newer transport as many of the top High End designs use this mechanism. I owned the EAD T-1000 for many years which uses the Pioneer transport and was very happy with it.
