Noisephiles -- That's excellent! The bottom line isn't just finding a perfect sound system; it's spending quality time finding and listening to music. The more time you fiddle, the less time you get to kick back, bliss out, and enjoy your system.
Re. external DACs: that is an excellent point. Using the right DAC (please, no flames here), assuming buffering, re-clocking, jitter elimination and a halfway competent output stage, the $300 player (or squeezebox) an $10k CD player (as transport) will sound the same. The scary, and pleasing, thing for me is that the SB is so good on its own! Incidentally, for the pure hell of it, I ordered an Alpac (sp?) linear power supply, just to experiment. As the SB gurus predicted, there was absolutely no difference in sound. There are just so many other imporant things. Something I would like to see: AES/EBU output for digital (strongest signal) and XLR outputs for audio (as above, allowing really long cable runs). I wonder if anyone does and can do these mods for a reasonable price? -- highdudgeon ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22204 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
