Teac VRDS T-1 or EAD T-1000 ?

I second Elberoth2 .I use the Digital lens and find ,that it improves the sound dramaticaly.Krell Md-1 with ARC Dac-3.

I don't know about T-1000, since I have had only the EAD 1000 cd player at home and haven't tried it's digital out, but I have had a bone stock T-1 and it left me stone cold. A medicore CD transport at best. I sold it as quickly as I bought it. A T-1 is a medicore CDT at best.

If you are looking for a good cdt on a cheap, try Muse Model 5 - I recently got one from AgoN for 350$ in excelent shape for my friend. It uses a popular Philips CDM 12.4 mechanism which can be sourced easyly and costs only 25$ + labour to replace.

The other route you may explore if you already have any DVD/CD player with digital out is getting Genesis Digital Lens. I recently made some comparisions and I cen tell you that my cheap Marantz CD-63KI CD player sounds better from his digital out fed through Digital Lens than my highly regarded Theta Data Basic II !

Of course Theta Data Basic II + DL sounds even better, but if you are on the budget you may try this route as well.

Hope this helps.

Adam