Looking To Upgrade to a new CD Transport

I have a Jay's Audio CD3 MK III and a Teac 701T transport. Here is my take on both. Even though I stream using Qobuz I still mostly play CDs and vinyl. I play at least 10 CDs a week and I got mad when $4000 transport made by a guy named Paul had the mechanism fail 3 times in 3 years and they would no longer service the unit. Turns out that this transport used a $15 generic computer CD drive that was never designed to spin discs for hours. Not going to make that mistake again.

Jay's CD3 MK III - This piece is built extremely well and is very heavy. It just feels like quality. It uses the last iteration of the Phillips mechanism and Jay's says they have a lifetime stock of them in case one ever fails. It has a feature that allows it to upsample to 176 kHz which can sound better on some DACs. The downside is that it dithers the first bit which prevents a DAC from decoding HDCDs. Since I have several hundred of these, that was an issue.

Teac 701T - I got this transport because Teac makes their own high quality disc drive and this player will do HDCD just fine as well as play MQA CDs (My Berkeley DAC does both HDCD and MQA). This is an excellent transport, especially for the money.

If I had to keep one of these units I would keep the Teac because of the flexibility. I have compared them to each other and I can't hear a difference. Frankly, the Jay's Audio is an issue of pride of ownership. I just love this piece and I smile every time I use it. I'm lucky to have both. 

I've had the Jays Audio CDT2 MK3 for a year and a half.  It sounds great, i2s into a Denefrips Athena. I even got a spare CD unit just in case. However, recently  i'm having problems with (it seems) the remote. Putting in new batteries did't change anything, but what is going on is that the player doesn't respond to the remote, but if you turn the player off and then back on, it does, but then only if you are standing right in front of it. After a while it stops responding again unless you are a couple feet in front of it. and do the power off thing.  Then it stops again!  This sort of limits the utility of the player, obviously. I haven't contacted the dealer about getting a new remote or yet tried getting a programmable one.  Anyone have an idea about what to do with this situation?

@howardlee 

I had the same problem.

I sent it to TEK Audio Specialties-- Jay’s US service center. 

They repaired it. I suggest you do the same.

Thanks! Sounds like you sent the whole unit back, not the remote (or both?).

@kjl1065 

"Wish to clarify and update my original question.  I already stream a great percentage of my music and am happy with my streaming sound.  My Dac is currently a Weiss Dac 204 which I use with my Lumin streaming transport. I still listen to cd's on an occasion. The new cd transport that I am considering must have AES/EBU digital outputs to provide the best sound with my Dac or with any future dac upgrade. My research indicates an AES/EBU digital output would provide the best sound. Now, I may not be correct as I am sure there are many that might say there is no difference, or that SPDIF is just as good.  In any case, do I need a cd transport with digital inputs as well? Don't think I do, and have not found a cd transport that has both AES/EBU outputs and inputs.  I have read AES/EBU digital inputs would allow more clocking options.  Thank you."

Thanks for not creating another thread!