karlsushi
pfm Member
This is a pretty interesting outcome. It feels there is a lot a CD transport has to do to even get close to a digital file sat on a hard drive. You would have thought that moving parts, a spinning disc and a laser trying to read data on the fly would all add up to a bigger challenge for the CD transport, but evidently there is more at play. More evidence in my mind that PSUs and output clocks are a large part of the story with any transport into the same DAC.Both into the same DAC - Hugo 2. Same CDs, ripped to lossless.
It's not even a great CD transport. Just a basic CD player at the moment. I've had better ones and know the CDs could be pushed even further.
Would still be interested to hear your comparisons with the HDD and an SSD, but if you do have an interest in improving your Node, you really should look into the PSU upgrade.