Unless you manage to place it inside a closed or something like that. Sound quality is good, I have to agree but that doesn't matter when the thing is barely usable. I really regret that I didn't buy the Audio Note CDT Zero. Interestingly my friend has the Project RS and is quiet. Manages to reduce the noise around 30% but the CD spinning is still audible. Level 0, CDT Zero/II, Red Book CD 16bit 44.1Khz, Philips, Internal. I shuffled my equipment around as much as I could to see if I could make it reasonably quiet. Turntable Audio Note Produce Vibration Free High Torque Belt Drive Turntables in. Indeed my apartment in Hong Kong is very small and that doesn't help but a player of this price should be good for use in a room and night listen. My audiolab and previously mu Luxman were completely silence. You can only listen it with music paused and half meter distance. Pro-ject keeps telling me that top load mechanisms are noisier by design but I had the opportunity to check the CEC transporter and it is much quieter. When I first got it I thought it was broken and visited the dealer. You can't use it for near field listening, night listening or for classical music. The Pro-Ject RS2 CD is so so noisy that you can listen the CD spinning 3 meters away. The M-CDT feels so much muche better quality. I upgraded from an Audiolab M-CDT that costed 400 usd. But the look to the back and bottom and it feels so poor quality. Indeed the cover, fornt panels and side pannels feel kind of good. I was looking to upgrade my CD transporter and after reading all this marketing stuff and rave review of the Pro-ject CD Box RS2 T I felt impressed and decided to purchase one without checking the thing carefully. I love this CD player - but it's something like $30,000.Click to expand.I have to completely disagree with this. I did listen to the new CD5.1x - their flagship One Box CD player and man oh man if CD sounded this good in the 1990s it may have hung around and fended off digital. I elected to just go with a Cambridge Audio CXC for $350 because The CD Two/II was something like $5,000 and I'd rather spend the money on vinyl. Bryston had a 5-year warranty on it so they felt it was a fairly robust mechanism - still, the L1210 isn't a Pro2. The Zero and level one players used the Philips L1210 - this was used in the top machines from Sim Audio and Bryston. The DACs perhaps but not the transports.Īudio Note is expensive because the parts are costly - the Philips Pro2LF mechanism in the CDT2 transport and up have a cost of $500 - just for the part and you have not done anything with it yet - like modify it and put in the casework. With AN CD players - the above isn't as likely to happen - largely because CD just isn't popular now and being mechanical are prone to failure so I don't think they will hold value as well as speakers and amplifiers. View online Owners manual for LG SB19WT CD Player or simply click Download button to examine the LG SB19WT guidelines offline on your desktop or laptop computer. Granted coming up with the initial price may be hard. Most any amplifier that you paid $1800 for back in 2003 I am willing to bet would only sell for half (at best) today. I can sell it for $400-$600 more than I paid for it in 2003. So when I saw the sticker price $2500 - 13 years later it turned out one speaker would have cost me FAR FAR more money. IE I got $2000 more than I would have gotten for De Capo. I can buy a second-hand MM De Capo - a lesser-sounding speaker - for $900 or less. I say essentially because there is inflation. So I owned a speaker for 13 years that essentially cost me nothing. I bought the AN J/SPe for $2,500 and 13 years later I sold them for $2,917. Back in 2003 I was looking at the Audio Note J/SPe speaker and the Reference 3a MM De Capo I (my then front runner). It is the NET cost of ownership not the initial price that matters. As noted earlier second-hand values are high - but then that also makes new units cheaper.
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