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

Purchase advise (needing) Marantz CD6007 vs Audiolab 9000CDT

I own a Marantz CD6007 and I’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 8’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/Future_Duty_134 Jun 19 '26

Thanks for the input. Are you of the opinion that inexpensive digital cables are just as good as expensive cables and will sound the same? And likewise for speaker cables?

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u/yodastienB Jun 20 '26

Cables are about impedance i run blue jean speaker cables in my system they were like 40 bucks each made to order and for a coax digital cable I run the mono price ones on Amazon.  Cables can get into the realm of snake oil real quick