Slim Devices Transporter Kills Your CD Player

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Slim Device's self-proclaimed audiophile grade network music player, the Transporter ($1999), is highly recommended by Soundstage AV's Doug Schneider. After going over its easy set up and sonic qualities (on par with similarly priced DACs, this is encouraging to hear as the Transporter's quality to value ratio has been questioned by other reviews and random forum posts), he proclaims the Transporter the death of the stand alone CD transport as a high end digital source:

The Slim Devices Transporter marks a shift in the way we audiophiles play music, and I believe it signals the death of the CD transport. In fact, I think someone would be foolish to spend much money on a CD transport today. Have one, yes, but start thinking about other ways to store and stream your music -- such as Slim Devices'; Transporter-SlimServer solution. It's that good -- and it's the way of the future. It just happens to be here today.

Awesome. I can stop my search for a new CD player, ignore MSNBC's bad advice to buy an old Playstation as an "audiophile" CD player (I looked into this a few months ago and the PS1's are hard to source and it takes way too much work to get the game machine to sound nice (and not even "audiophile" nice, just better than many DVD players and cheap CD players), this site has info on all the mods) and be satisfied with my computer music over a network player like the Transport (or my more humble Airport Express and Sony PSP set up which I still need to find a batter DAC for than my Onkyo TX-DS989 AV Receiver).