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CD/Transport W/ External DAC

I have been using my cd player(carin fog) as a transport and has since died and gone to cd heaven. I was and will be using a Benchmark Dac1 as the Dac. My Question is there a sonic diference in using a cheap cdp under $1000 vs one in the $2000 range if it will only be used as a transport.
Thanks for your help
faziod
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lak
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http://www.cec-international.de/pages/s1.htm

Also available at WWW.Audiovisor.com (I think)

Do a search in Audiogan or AA discussion and look for the best pricing you can find.
pops
1,847 posts
 
Yep, an upgrade in my transport made one of the biggest improvements of any upgrade I ever made.
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rx8man
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I'll jump in and say I agree with Jayctoy and Lak, I just picked up a mint TL-2X, made a pretty significant difference in presentation, easeful, relaxed and smooth as silk, put a King Cobra V-1 power cord on it and talk about soundstage, this is what I was looking for to round out the rest of my rig.
roy2001
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Can you guys tell me the reason why CD transport is important? It send PCM pure digital signal to DAC, isn't it? If it is true, then technically any DVD/CD player with coax or optical (toslink) output should performs same.
ipy
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It send PCM pure digital signal to DAC, isn't it? Yes, in 0's and 1's, however down the chain jitter or timing of the 0's and 1's essentially sets transports apart as I understand.............
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