USB CD Transports

+1 ghdprentice

My Aurender reads from SSD, or from stream and caches data. All data is played from cache and the design minimizes internal noise. My ripped files sound great. At least they sound great if the recording engineers and musicians did their job.  It’s hard to advise you without knowing what components make up your system.  FYI: You can look up our virtual systems in our profile and should you want to, you can post your system on your profile.  I went through the process of considering the purchase of a CD transport, and decided against it based on the advice given me at the time.

@vonhelmholtz 

+1

Saw the Schiit Urd and looked very interesting, need to read up on it, but I too have a spot in my heart for my massive CD collection and have ripped them all onto my Innuos, so gonna do some serious A/B comparison once my Teac 701t 70th with clock comes end of the month.

I'll be honest I feel ripped CD's are ever so slightly better then what I find on Tidal through my Innuos Zenith with Phoenix USB, and I 100% now buy all digital albums through Bandcamp in Hi-Res (44.1/24 or higher). I feel it's a appreciable difference.

I think the Schiit was released just a few days ago, possibly no one has one yet, and the Shanling about a few weeks, so probably no direct comparisons yet...I also still like to use CD...the debate over CD, streaming, ripping etc is endless...

I read that the Schiit uses a StreamUnlimited CD drive as does the Pro-ject RS2 T transport.  Not sure if it is the same version of it or not.