CD Player vs CD Transport Advice Sought

[sfdude]

Here's my 2 cents to this thread.

My primary source is streaming .. Roon Nucleus+ >> Dev 440-Pro but I have over 3,000 CDs and many aren't available either on Tidal or Qobus. And I didn't want to spend a ton of $$$ for a CD playing system either. Thus, from the used market, I picked up a CEC TL-5 Top-loading (belt drive) CD Transport that's very well made and use the AES/EBU XLR output of the transport to my Dev 440-Pro's AES/EBU Input. It works flawlessly ...

What AEX/EBU XLR to AES/EBU cable did you use audio_engr?

Thanks.
-dave