I think Tom, who is about as stand-up a guy as you will find here, in addition to one with an outstanding reference system and the trained ears of a professional musician, has disproved this notion. Using a Bolder "full mods" SB2 -- which incidentally works out to being slightly more expensive than a Transporter -- he said that sound was very good...but that he preferred the Transporter. Amongst other things, you can't get around a different DAC chip.
For the record, run a transporter straight into an amp, which I think is pretty common around these parts. It works quite well and works perhaps better than an SB3 + Lavry (and, trust me, 1 foot of high quality digital coax is not going to degrade signal, and especially not when you're dealing with a re-clocking DAC). rajacat;161813 Wrote: > Unless you get your TP modded, perhaps the best sound quality would be > an analog modded SB direct to amplifier. Eliminate the external DAC. > It's not that the TP internal dac is exceptional but that by > eliminating the external dac you are simplifying the signal path and no > interconnects are necessary. -- highdudgeon Relax. It's about the music. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ highdudgeon's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2195 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30530 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
