Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ?

I am 100% invested in vinyl, but want to improve my digital equipment chain.

Once I’ve upgraded my streaming equipment, why purchase a quality CD/SACD transport?

Is there a large enough subset of music that sounds better via optical media?

vonhelmholtz08-13-2022 1:28pm

elliottbnewcombjr Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,794 posts 08-14-2022 at 12:01pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I took these past few 'stay at home' years to upgrade, bit by bit, until main/office/garage-shop systems were all upgraded. Began with wanting a long tonearm. Led to a TT with 3 tonearms, proper mono listening for the first time, and essentially all vinyl. However, I own a heck of a lot of CDs and SACDs, and I started a quest for a better sounding SACD/CD player. I went thru 9 different players until I settled on my Sony xa5400es https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/sony-sacd-player-scd-xa5400es-yay-or-nay I went thru a re-discovery process, opposite of vinyl re-discovery, it put new life in all my existing CDs and I am buying used CDs occassionally without hesitation. after R2R tape, vinyl is preferred, but my CDs sound better than ever! Do It.