Harley Lovegrove of Pearl Acoustics is known for designing speaker enclosures states that from his listening tests transports don’t matter.
You decide
If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound?
One interesting topic of discussion here is how audible the differences are between CD players when they are used as transports only — or when they are only transports to begin with.
In other words, in a comparison which keeps the DAC the same, how much difference can be heard between CD transports?
This recent video by Harley Lovegrove of Pearl Acoustics provides one test of this question. It may not be the ultimate test, but he does describe the experimental conditions and informations about the qualifications of the listeners.
He comes to the main conclusion here: https://youtu.be/TAOLGsS27R0?t=1079
The whole video is worth watching, I think.
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@jasonbourne71 how do you level match a transport? |
I heard I nice improvement going from the Audiolab 6000 to the Project CD Box RS2 T. I didn't level match the and blind compare lol but I did notice things sounding better more real and less digital. I also notice that playing a CD from the disc through my DAC sounds drastically better than streaming it through Roon. |
I went from a Cambridge transport to a PS Audio transport and finally a Jay's cdt2-mk3 transport. Absolutely amazing amount of difference in sound performance and all with the same Gustard x26 pro dac. Also of note, using the Jay's with I2S connection via a Tubulus Concentus cable, quite a step up from the coax connections I had with the Cambridge and PS Audio. Sorry Jasonborne, cables and transport matter, in my experience anyway. |
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