Let's suppose that you have decided to use a deq (the behringer or something fancier).
If you use the transporter, you'll have to do digital out to the deq, and then digital in back to the transporter. My understanding is that the transporter has an input for a wordclock, but no output. Do you know if this is correct? Because if it is, it would seem to me that having an sb3->deq->dac where the dac has a wordclock output would perhaps work better (the behringer, which is the cheapest option, has a wordclock input), or at least as well. Unless I'm wrong about the wordclock on the transporter, you'd have to have a separate wordclock unit driving both clocks to get the same performance. I'd be quite willing to accept that I have this wrong, if someone could explain. highdudgeon;133899 Wrote: > Where were we before a certain member's interruption? Right: the > Stereophile review. > > I think Totoro is on the right track. To make my point again...which I > am sure is fogotten by now...I'm of the school that differences in DACs > are, in fact, rather small. Modern electronics are really, really good > -- mid-priced Sony or Pioneer CD players could easily be confused with > far higher-end material. > > Now, suppose you have bit-perfect reception. With the SB/Transporter, > that's the case. Now, suppose you pipe that into much higher grade DAC > (the Transporter) without having to use cables and what not. Assume > accurate clocking that essentially does away with jitter. You now have > one heck of a product. > > The only thing left to address, really, are the speakers and room. > Picking speakers for specific rooms is tricky, in my experience, and > treating rooms is either easy or next to impossible, depending on your > living situation. Assuming reasonable speakers, the one thing you > CAN do is to introduce equalization. A 2-5bd tweak in a critical > mid-range area and proper bass management will have far more impact > than fancy cables and...quite possibly...make more of a difference than > using an SB3 alone and an SB3 with DAC. Anyway, that's my take on it. > > I had the Behringer for a while, sold it, and got a graphic EQ. Only > reason: I found the menus a bit fussy. Having said that, I know a > senior acoustic engineer who uses a Behringer 2496 in his $20k+ system. -- totoro _____________________________________________ squeezebox 3 -> behringer 2496 -> classe 5 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26306 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
