CD Spinners Help Needed: Pioneer Elite PD 65 or Enlightened Audio Design T 1000

Pioneer supply’s the transport for the EAD. I had a Pioneer PD65 and had it for 15 years. It was an excellent sounding CD Player and Absolute sound gushed over it when it was reviewed way back when. They summed it up as : looks like a million and sounds like it too.

I would keep the PD65. Just beware the glue that holds the actual laser may be dried out and the lense could fall out. It is an easy fix.  Something I do not understand, since when is a cd player called a spinner?

Off topic- What made you decide to start playing CDs again?

@xrayz 

 I was given these two players. A friend of mine passed away and he had tones of gear that was going to be given to the goodwill. So that made me dig out the old boxes of CDs..

As a transport I wouldn’t expect much difference between the two; both used the Pioneer stable platter. Been years but I’ve had them both at home, (years ago worked at a shop that sold both) and much preferred the The Theta Data Basic Transport either one. At the time I preferred products from CAL over anything for the money and the first real CDP I owned was an ARC CD2 that easily surpassed all the above. I say sale them both and if you don’t already own a streamer, go there. My bet is a Bluesound will outperform both with the  DAC you say you have, as its DAC is decent. Talking a streamer here with Tidal HiFi or other.

If you’re going to keep one then keep the Pioneer as it is a player and not just a transport. EAD DACs were ok, but their transports were just a Pioneer stuck in a heavy box really with a nice faceplate and not really much more. Sounding harsh here, and I shouldn’t as EAD was decent stuff then. I remember at the time I liked the McCormack SST-1 transport a lot too. For the money that was a nice transport.

Old thread, but which one did you sell?