Why Purchase A CD Player or Transport ?


I am 100% invested in vinyl, but want to improve my digital equipment chain.

Once I’ve upgraded my streaming equipment, why purchase a quality CD/SACD transport?

Is there a large enough subset of music that sounds better via optical media?

vonhelmholtz

I purchased the Audiolab CDT 6000 also.

No regrets. Sounds great. Not going to start down the streaming hole at the moment. Lots of good music in house. CDs and vinyl. Less wear and tear on cartridge too.

 

 

Understanding that sometimes price may not be an issue, $4,000 seems like a lot of money.

I get these insane expenditures on analog gear because it’s the nature of the beast.

A $1,000 cable.  Hmmmm….

Others may be able to provide cogent arguments to the contrary, but I have a hard time seeing a commensurate increase in sound quality from a good DAC/streaming setup to a $5k CD setup.  

Seems like, as you noted, ripping your CDs and rockin’ the DAC/streaming setup would be totally fair.

but I have a hard time seeing a commensurate increase in sound quality from a good DAC/streaming setup to a $5k CD setup.  

@tylermunns I did too until I actually got my dedicated streamer up and running.  My streaming quality now far surpasses that of playing CDs.  Not even close. 

+1 soix

SQ better than CD in high res flac files. ‘Or the same if in the same resolution.”per @ghdprentice Some refute this. Each to their own.

And there’s the equivalent of surfing the web but with music on steroids.