I wonder if the coroner wire in a laser printer could be utilised to remove the charge?
Would probably be the death of your vinyl.
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Thankfully Iām not thinking of my records. 
works for coffee maybe point it at your vinyl? or maybe not.
Itās industrial grade after all.
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Nice. 
Very nice.
Please get bored of it and sell it to me 
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what one is it Wayne for us armatures ,
Jays Audio CDT3
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Is that the one that was on ebay, or a new one?
Yep the one on eBay. I havenāt had a disc spinner for I donāt know how long, so wasnāt going to spend >Ā£5k on a whim.
Iāve maybe heard 2-3 disc transports that I think can reproduce music, and this is definitely one of them.
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That was a very keen price. I was tempted, but thereās no upgrade path at present to mk2 - not that itās likely to make a lot of difference, as this had all the bells and whistle to start with, which then fed back into the CDT-2 Mk3 .
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Yep I took the view that Iām long past audio-fomo of having the very latest version for the premium. I reckoned I was getting a great deal of that performance for less than a third of the price and I wasnāt entirely sure that the sound would justify dragging my CDs out the loft - oh boy has this dispelled that notion!
Iāve heard all of 3 tracks so far and itās bloody obvious that not only does it throw shit in the face of my streamer (Aurender N100H) even with hi res files, but itās perhaps the best Iāve ever heard digital, and as you know Iām reluctant to say that lightly.
My first reaction was to turn round and look at my records and think āthatās the end of the non AAA onesā 
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What the fuck has happened to this place?! End timesā¦
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My TT is gathering a lot of dust right now.
Sorely tempted to try and get hold of a Denafrips Terminator DAC - the notion of getting an ANK DAC 4.1 kit has gone very-much on hold, and I canāt build a Soekris-based DAC as the boards are no longer being madeā¦
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Why the fuck has it taken this long to build a CDT that sounds like music?!
Tomorrow Iām going to brave switching on the turntable and listening to some of the same albumsā¦
Orbital āSnivilisationā sounding quite sublime at the moment.
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I can see Ā£100 special CD releases in the future!
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Yep thinking the same.
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We used to have HDCD - a clever 20-bit fudge that actually sounded really good, but (iirc) someone like Microshite bought the licence and then prevented anyone else using it. We also have things like XRCD - gold-coloured discs - the more desirable of which easily romp off into 3-figures. Those also sound good, but they tend to feature well-recorded audiophile-friendly stuff: and as many other often state: Production >++++++> Replay System.
Edit: Thing is, these CDTs elevate the worst-produced stuff I have to excellence and musicality: they pull out detail I have never heard before in even the most awful recordings, and they still sound like engaging music.
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The little Pro-ject CD Box RS - with a good PSU and some tweaking beat all-comers for 9 years here, but then the Jayās arrived and absolutely mullered it.
Much though it pains me to admit it, I think The Medium-Sized Lebowski had it right - good clocking/very low jitter is at the heart of this - supported by the fact that most manufacturers use cheap little quartz oscillators that cost pennies in bulk (and have no trace of electrical or thermal compensationā¦) , wheras these Jayās units use some pretty serious OCXO clocks, paired with a really good, stiffly regulated PSUs.
Some stuff isnāt foo, and not all 1s and 0s are the sameā¦ 
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I have a Holo Spring? R2R Dac, you can try.
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