Direct Drive CD-transport

[Drengur]

Greetings.

In my search for the most analogue sound for my collection of digitally stored audio, I came upon this (after speaking to that smelly bearded guy who has four separate power lines to his room in his mom's basement for each of his tube amps):

The picture obviously is digital, I am sorry for that, you can practically smell the harsh colours and it's obviously not time-aligned. Anyways, it's been driven 100.000 km so it is probably about time to change the belt. Should I weave my own out of military grade rubber or does the AudioQuest SignalBelt 2000 provide the best quality sound? I've already used a blue market to cover the edges of my Japanese version CDs.

Tldr; What are some other brilliant ideas in audio you never would have come up?
ps. I really like the look of this device, gives me CD-i vibes.
pps. This is sarcasm, trying to be funny is a coping mechanism my psychologists says is very common among jaded audiophiles.

 

[Blumlein 88]

I had a different version of the belt drive CEC. I used it for 15 years. Replaced the belt once after 12 years. Worked, but got to where it was squeaking for a second after you loaded a CD. It also had a heavy weight damper you placed on the CD. I really spun the CDs in those years so it had thousands of hours. Many thousands. There was a guy with a website who had the proper belt in those days when I replaced it (maybe 12 years or 10 years ago). Have no idea about now.

Had this one. Picture doesn't do it justice as it was a brushed gold finish. Crutchfield sold one which was like this, but had RCA outputs as well.

CEC CD TRANSPORT TL51X

 

[JeremyFife]

Many years ago I bought a Rega CD player (Planet) because the adverts and reviews described it as 'analogue sounding'...
I'm learning

It was quite nice actually, massively overpriced though. I'm a ripper now.

 

[LTig]

Tldr; What are some other brilliant ideas in audio you never would have come up?

Sicomin damper on top of the CD.
Sicomin dampers under the feet.

It was night and day, even my wife in the kitchen heard it.