Good ol’ honest engineering - the world best cd transport from years ago
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As many here probably know, Esoteric is TEAC's luxury brand where VRDS CD/SACD front loading transport technology is featured. Current incarnations are their VRDS ATLAS mechanisms. There's plenty of detail on VRDS on the Esoteric website under their various SACD player models. Esoteric used to OEM their less refined versions of VRDS technology to a number of high end brands for incorporation into their players/transports, but stopped this practice several years ago.
That transport with the levinson dac back it the day is one of the five best cd players I ever heard. That plus the sonic frontier dac and transport three. The linn cd12, the wadia seperates 27 and? That matching pair, and the levinson transport dac pair there top of the line.I have two :
Oracle CD player
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Mark Levinson No:31 is a great transport but for me CEC TL0 and 47 Labs PiTracer are the best. I also listened Oracle and Rice Cd players. They’re good but just another CDM Pro2 transports, that’s all. Second best thing to CEC and 47 Labs are Philips CDM 1 or Industrial. Even CDM 4 is great to my ears. More importantly infamously unreliable Philips capacitors play a major role on the final sound of those transports. If you happen to find a Studer or Revox variant it even sounds better and more unreliable with German (Franco) capacitors. Studer A727 and A730 sound great, not as detailed as Esoteric but much more listenable.
I used to have Pioneer PD-91 and BOW ZZ-8 and they were great transports too.
BTW I never liked Esoteric top transports or Sony transports.
I used to have Pioneer PD-91 and BOW ZZ-8 and they were great transports too.
BTW I never liked Esoteric top transports or Sony transports.
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Did you ever listen to a roksan rok transport? I never heard the clc you talk about or the 47 labs
My transport journey was:
PS Audio Lambda
Sonic Frontiers SFT-1
CEC TL-1X
Oracle CD2000/2000SE
I remember the Forsell being loved by J-10(Jonathan Scull). I saw a Yamaha top-loader in Saudi Arabia, 30 years ago.
Lol there was not students dealer within in 2000 miles of me either! Another one I missed
a friend had the Forsell and it was the size of a pro baking machine and pretty good sounding
I bought 2 Studer A727s from NRK/Norw.national broadcaster
they had over 600 Studer A810s and at least a couple of hundred A80s
70 Lyrec Frida for Lillehammer Olympics in -94
and hundreds of other Studer R2R, casette and EMT cd, tt´s and shitloads of Tascam B52s and ATR 60s too
they also had hundreds of Altec Mantarays for the Olympics outdoor arenas
I bought 2 Studer A727s from NRK/Norw.national broadcaster
they had over 600 Studer A810s and at least a couple of hundred A80s
70 Lyrec Frida for Lillehammer Olympics in -94
and hundreds of other Studer R2R, casette and EMT cd, tt´s and shitloads of Tascam B52s and ATR 60s too
they also had hundreds of Altec Mantarays for the Olympics outdoor arenas
What many people don't think about around me in western Canada that the hi fi world exists farther afield than just north America. There are many great products that we have never seen. I wanted an power pre that was made in Norway very bad years ago. I could not find anyone to sell me one.
That is the company it was a 2x80 stereo amplifier I cannot remember the model number
I later had a bridged version of that driving mono Klipsch corner horn with JBL LE15a lopassed at 55Hz with Symmetry active filter from John Curl
above was Acoustat monitor IV driven by directcoupled pentode amps
Spatial coherence preamp and Cotter B1/Denon DP6000 tt with FR 66FX and Linn Karma
above was Acoustat monitor IV driven by directcoupled pentode amps
Spatial coherence preamp and Cotter B1/Denon DP6000 tt with FR 66FX and Linn Karma
I heard Roksan transport but I can’t make comparisons with other transports. Probably I wasn’t impressed.
A couple of years ago a friend who’s in antique business bought asked me through a mutual friend if he should buy these or not. I told him “buy immediately”. He bought those below together with Roksan transport, Audio Aero amps, McIntosh amps, B&W speakers.
Thorens Reference is sold to Netherlands but I don’t know what happened to Roksan transport.I bought the roksan pair years ago. I really didn't care for the one bit dac. I finally mated it with a chord dac and I was surprised at how that pairing worked. Lol I always thought I guess it looks good just don't play it. I ended up quite happy with it.
Micromega duo cd transport have a good detailed sound.
cdm philips laser and aes/ebu xlr digital output.
For more money sony cdp r 10 has the best mechanic and sound on this planet.
cdm philips laser and aes/ebu xlr digital output.
For more money sony cdp r 10 has the best mechanic and sound on this planet.
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How do you know that? Have you ever heard it?
I haven’t heard a Sony transport that I like and I heard R1, predecessor and of R10.
Five years ago I was able to hear it with 2 different DACs. jadis dac and sonic frontiers sfd 2. it sounds excellent very detailed open sound. better then wadia 7 transport which has been the benchmark for me for years, even in the bass area it is equivalent to the wadia. The workmanship and connection options are exceptional for the early 90s. The transport mechanism is heavier than most complete CD transports today. Stability in piano music i like to compare with good analogue sources. Be quick here the combination is offered.
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