If it was your money , would you buy this ?

[nima]

What's wrong with good old listening test? Either it is better for someone in his system or it isn't.

IDK why it always has to turn out into same kind of ontological debate: cabels can't make a difference, CDTs can't make a difference, DACs cant make a difference and so on and so forth. It's ridiculous really.

 

[MakkaPakka]

If the answer to every question was just go and listen (which is very often not posisible anyway) then there wouldn't be much point in a forum.

 

[cannibal_ox77]

Was looking around for transports before I plumped for the 8200CDQ. These Little Dot transports have got some good feedback from what I've seen, at a fraction of the price:

http://yklee118.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/little-dot-cdpi-transport-review.html

Yes transport makes a lot of difference to sound quality.. I have tired my cambridge audio 840c, rega planet(very first model) & my oppo 105 as transports. The oppo gives far better clarity and depth to the sound... yes I picked the oppo every time blind tested.

I agree - In another thread ("worth adding an audiolab m-dac to my streamer and cdp?") i suggested an audiolab 8200cd might sound better than a Marantz CD6003 via M-DAC. Even if the M-DAC's DAC is superior to that found in the 8200cd player, i would expect the transport in the 8200cd to make more of a difference in quality with CD playback than the combo of cd6003 and m-dac overall.

 

[MajorFubar]

But I think CD transports are one of those areas where you apply a little critical thinking. My blu/dvd/combi writer laptop drive thingy costs next to nothing but can make perfect rips of CDs about eight or nine times normal playback speed. I would think any purpose-built CD player operating at 1x speed should have no trouble at all.

Yep that was my point. If it takes a £700+ CD transport to do in real-time what my £15 USB drive can apparently do very well albeit with the benefit of several passes if required, they need to go back to their collective drawing boards.

 

[lindsayt]

JamesMellor, no I wouldn't. But it's your money. Do whatever makes you happiest.