nreddy - SOTA means State Of The Art.
emmlabs uses 2 different transports. one is a modified philips SACD-1000 and was the 1st transport they used. It had a proprietary link added to it that allowed the whole philips unit to be clocked by the dac6 and to output DSD and the re-clocked data back to the dac. The problem was that the philips sacd-1000 is one of the biggest lemons in history and continually broke. not emmlabs' fault, but they broke regardless.
so, meitner decided to build his own transport, the CDSD. it does the same thing, but supposedly sounds better than the the philips tranport (i haven't heard it) and is built from the ground-up using an OEM philips transport mechanism and all propietary cicuitry.
as far as i know, the cdsd has been pretty much flawless in its operation - not like the SACD-1000 which i own. the one i have plays cds fine, fine it'll only play 1 out of every 4 or 5 SACDs and no MC sacds. (sigh)
but, i have a new used one coming in the mail monday that i was able to get cheap. lets hope this works long enough for me to save up for the cdsd.
