New Shanling CD transport coming

[frenchrooster]

You can join Chord to this collection

[Simon-in-Suffolk]

I gave myself a bet that would you would add Chord Electronics … you didn’t let me down

[Sloop_John_B]

First off the positives, it is a good quality transport and it certainly sounds better than my Marantz CD67se used as a transport - so that’s a win. I’m enjoying being able to spin a CD without ripping and the SQ into my Hugo TT2 (via m-scaler), whilst not better than my Auralic Aries streamer (which I didn’t really want to happen anyway) is very good and gives me from a transport perspective what I wanted.

Alas for ripping I should have delved a bit further as I presumed Darko was correct with his presumption and the Shanling would show up as a CD drive.

This brings us to the CR60’s twist. It can be switched into ‘CD ripper’ mode on the rear panel to losslessly auto-rip a CD to a directly attached USB drive or execute a user-managed rip to a PC or Mac (where presumably the Shanling device shows up as an external CD drive)

It doesn’t. It shows up as as USB drive from which one copies and pastes to “rip”.

So if like me you thought this would be a CD drive that could be seen by dBPoweramp, well it can’t. The ripping does work.

• Create folder to copy album to
• cut and paste to this folder
• Use dBPoweramp to convert to flac
• look up on discogs
• use discogs release code in mp3 tag to tag file.
• use mp3tags convert filename to tag to give files names other than track 1, 2 etc.

So whilst it can be used to rip, using it with a PC isn’t really a viable option for me and if my CD drives die this won’t be a long term option to replace them.

.sjb