CD/Transport W/ External DAC


I have been using my cd player(carin fog) as a transport and has since died and gone to cd heaven. I was and will be using a Benchmark Dac1 as the Dac. My Question is there a sonic diference in using a cheap cdp under $1000 vs one in the $2000 range if it will only be used as a transport.
Thanks for your help
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Showing 1 response by psychicanimal

Belt driven transports have less vibration than direct drive transports, thus they read with more accuracy. Now, the CEC's, from what I understand, skimp on electronics. I am sending my CEC built Parasound transport to Dan Wright. He told me he's previously modded CEC transports and that he knew what to do with mine...

Transports are way more complicated machines than just bit readers. My McCormack SST1 transport has better slam, impact and dynamics than my Parasound. That's why Dan Wright is going to fix those shortcomings.