Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at homeWhen/if the new Schiit Urd get released, as with all their products they have a 15 day home trial period.
Cheers George
Suggest Transports that can be Demo'd at home
stuartk OP Ah, you have the Jolida, this is a TNT Audio review of the Cambridge CXC $600 in Australia, and it happens the reviewer owned the Jolida, here’s what he said when he compared them " To say there is a big difference would not be an exaggeration, the CXC clearly reads better than the Jolida. Playing music that had been ripped to the server via pc was always cleaner than the Jolida, which I had put down to the effects of the valve output and DAC. Comparing digital out on the Jolida to the CXC there is a vast difference with the Cambridge extracting more information (detail, air and ambient space) and less fuzziness (or cleaner sound). The CXC also trumps the sound of the same disc ripped via pc to the server."https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/cambridge_cxc_e.html Cheers George |
stuartk OP Don’t be, my systems up there too and I use the Cambridge CXC, it’s only $600aud here in Australia, but it’s a purpose built CD transport, that has very good spdif wave form (I’ve measured and see it) and said to only have 5 ps of jitter, and looking how clean the wave form is I believe that. Here’s what Lapizator (transport guru) said about it when I showed him pics of the tests. This wave form is as perfect as it gets. The Sim Moon Neo 260D you said having a flimsy transport is that it has nothing special in the way of a transport laser mechanism, having a Sanyo SF-HD65 in it. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SFHD65M-SF-HD65M-HD65M-Original-New-Sanyo-Laser-Lens-Mechanism-SF-HD65/120971864496?epid=1300237646&hash=item1c2a7c29b0:g:wloAAMXQiM5RAREU&frcectupt=true So one cost $600aud and the other $4000aud, with laser/transport mech that are, well as good as each other. Some of the places you can get the Cambridge CXC from are the type of store that you can take it back to if not happy, here in AU they are in hiend stores but also in hifi chain stores that you can return to. Reviews https://www.whathifi.com/cambridge-audio/cxc/review https://www.tnt-audio.com/sorgenti/cambridge_cxc_e.html https://www.dagogo.com/cambridge-audio-cxc-transport-review/ Cheers George |