Question Regarding CD Transports

[MrMudPuppy]

This question is asked with utmost sincerity for learning purposes; I am not asking it to be a smart@$$. I've been wanting to ask this for some time.

O.K. here we go...

Some manufacturers offer high-priced CD transports (some in excess of $10,000-$15,000). If my $49.00 CD transport/reader in my desktop computer can read in 180MB work files with no errors consistently, what is the benefit to a better CD transport system? If the answer is that less error correction is needed, then why can my $800.00 computer do it just fine. Is it because my work files are not subject to vibrations (music crancked at 118dB :laugh:)? Is speed the issue? Is it because its music? Isn't digital data just that - data? Do my work files have errors in them perhaps?

I'm stumped.

I must be missing something here, and I hope that someone on this good forum can enlighten me on a lonely friday night.

Thanks!

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Originally posted by MrMudPuppy
Some manufacturers offer high-priced CD transports (some in excess of $10,000-$15,000). If my $49.00 CD transport/reader in my desktop computer can read in 180MB work files with no errors consistently, what is the benefit to a better CD transport system?
I think that you've asked a good question but the answers are complex.

There are substantial differences between the sounds of different cd transports and you'll hear these if your amplification and particularly speakers are detailed and transparent enough to show them up.

I suggest that you arrange to listen to some different transports in a high quality system so that you can hear the differences for yourself. There's more to transports than the ability to read cds without error.