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Serge wrote:

Well, I always noticed that 'universal' transports which spin the CD at 4x, 8x, 16x, 32x (faster each year) sound much muddier and grainier then the dedicated CD ones. Unfortunately nowadays there are hardly one or two commercially available OEM CD-transports, everything else is DVD/high speed. I will even add that I hear absolutely no advantage of having a PC as a transport. I prefer CD. I can only speculate that the OS (or BIOS) interfers with the data much on a worse scale then the optical drive.

I was under impression, perhaps mistaken, that the contemporary transports 1) adjust the rotation spin to be optimum to the type of media they play 2) buffer data and do not play “direct from the disk” anyhow.  The main point that I would like to make is that Oppo does not lose to TL0 in HF, LF. MF or in anything else that we associate with audiophile sound, although TL0 outputs very different amount information at top end. The main difference is in the energy, aggression and the veracity of Sound the transports do. Do not ask me where this quality comes from, I have no idea about the answer.

decoud wrote:

Oddly it might be the DAC section for which an Oppo player, though a later one, might be worth trying. If this... http://www.esstech.com/PDF/es9008%20dac%20comparison_SPDIF_96000_compA_compb.pdf ...is to be believed then the sound of the thing ought to be far more immune to the quality of the transport section than is usual. Of course, how it compares with your Bidat or Lavry Gold is hard to say.

I do not know anything about Oppo DACs, I did not try them. I know that regardless what they are the underperformance of the Oppo transport shall be factored into the sound of the Oppos’s DACs. Since the Oppo transport is so behind I am not sure I will be ever try to play Oppo with own DAC in my main system. BTW, running Oppo with own DACs in my video playback I do appreciate the sound. Yes, I know that there are two never models out there after the unit I tried.  I wonder if the newest models use different transport and different software to support the transport….

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