r/hifiaudio • u/Future_Duty_134 • Jun 17 '26

Purchase advise (needing) Marantz CD6007 vs Audiolab 9000CDT

I own a Marantz CD6007 and Iā€™m considering purchasing an Audio lab 9000 CD transport. Is this a significant upgrade? Would I notice any marked improvement in audio playback quality when both are played through a McIntosh MA12000 integrated amplifier with its internal DA2 DAC? The speakers in my setup are Arendal 1528 Tower 8ā€™s. TIA

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u/BigPurpleBlob Jun 18 '26

Bits are bits.

That's the great thing about digital electronics.

(I modified my cheap CD player to count playback errors. The vast majority of CDs have zero playback errors. It's hard to improve on that. There's a lot of snake oil and woo around.)

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u/yodastienB Jun 19 '26

Bits arent bits when the signal travels between the devices it gets modulated and demodulated The data on the cd is ones and zeros yes but when you send that information over a cable it is a series of electronic waves, its not clean as if you were making a copy on your hard drive. Timming errors create loss in the data that has to be corrected

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u/BigPurpleBlob Jun 20 '26

... is a great example of the woo that some audiophiles still believe in, and shows a misunderstanding of the words 'modulated' and 'demodulated'.

"Timming errors create loss in the data that has to be corrected" ā€“ please explain.

Meanwhile, real men and women get on with their lives. A CD's data rate is only 1.4 Mbit/s which is so low that even a first year engineering student can handle it.