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I couldnt find anything here about the T-Drive and the 912/04 loader so I thought I would gather together the information which I hunted down from all over the web, but mainly this forum. Many thanks for your great information and the obvious kindness and generosity of many experts here.

My T-Drive is from 1993 according to the board dates.
The transport is as has been said above, marked 912/04, which is a high quality transport made by Philips, probably by their subsidiary Daisy Laser who made the CDM9 laser mechanism. There is a Philips part number following the 912/04 number on the label.

http://www.daisy-laser.com/products/products_map.htm

The laser mechanism is marked CDM9/65 on the label, followed by another Philips part number. This is a variant of the type called CDM9Pro - threads also mention CDM9/60 on some CDM9Pro type assemblies. I dont know the difference.

The CDM9Pro is described as different from the standard CDM9 through using a brushless spindle drive for the CD rotation, as opposed to brushed (thereby reducing motor induced electrical noise and eliminating brush failure). Other possible differences are the use of metal instead of plastic CD spindle, and the use of a superior metal frame. There is some mention of differences in glass / plastic lenses, but most sources agree that CDM9s and CDM9Pros use identical laser / lens assemblies and that plastic was only introduced with the CDM12. The standard CDM9 is CDM9/44.

The CDM9 is a high quality radial swinging arm design which gives extremely high audio accuracy at the expense of slow access speeds (changing tracks takes a long time on these drives). Subsequently the designs changed to linear three diode assemblies allowing multiple simultaneous reads, and paving the way to faster access and faster reading for non audio applications.

Audio Quality

These mechanisms are the peak of the radial arm series of designs and were used only on the highest end machines of their day. Later mechanisms use different technology, some people like them, but many regard the CDM9 and some of the other top end CDM products as unsurpassed.

I use T-Drive (Mark 1) -> AES link -> T-Dac -> Transparent Link cables -> Copland CDA28 -> Transparent speaker cables -> B&W CDM1SE and ACI Titan kit sub.

I bought this equipment in 1998 except the Titan which I built in