Transport for MHDT Havana


Just bought a MHDT Havana Balanced DAC and will need a good transport for it. Any suggestions? Would like to keep it under $1500.

Really like Stello CDT100 (no longer available) and I'm intrigued by the WOO WTP-1 (which is not yet available...). Kind of partial to top loaders.
audiojan

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Elevick, Gopher answered your question quite well. Buying a DAC and sending a less than pristine digital signal to it is kind of like buying a sports car and getting generic tires from Sears... Yes, you can drive the car, and it might even be fun, but honestly you're only achieving a small portion of it's potential. Plus, call me old fashioned, but I have a lot of CD's and really don't want to put them all on a drive, besides, I like to be able to touch the physical media... That's one reason why I really love LP's.

I'll look into the CEC transports. Those were actually on my mind, but I forgot to mentioned them.
First time I could spend some serious time with the Havana and IMPRESSED doesn't even come close. First time digital is getting close to the analog purity that I so wanted. Live records sounds like.. live!

This thing definitely needs a dedicated transport... Using my Oppo BD95 right now but that's going back in the HT.
So, I've decided. It'll be a CEC TL1. I heard one of those years back and really liked how that sounded. Granted, it was with Thiel CS7.2, driven by some very large and expensive VTL's, but that sound was glorious. My experience with the Havana so far has really moved me much, much closer to that and once the CEC get's here, I really hope that is yet another step towards that.