bluesdoc;161532 Wrote: > So what do you think? for best SOUND quality would you think Squeezebox3 > plus DAC (eg. Benchmark or equivalent), vs Transporter alone, vs > Transporter plus DAC (which might be overkill? or not?) thanks in > advance. BluesDoc
To answer part of your question, on a technical level it's almost certainly a bad idea to connect the transporter to an external DAC. The reason is that any S/PDIF connection will induce jitter into the digital signal, so the external DAC will be receiving a much noisier signal than the internal DAC of the Transporter (or SB, for that matter). Given that the TP was carefully engineered to maximize its fidelity without (much) concern for cost, it's highly unlikely that any external DAC will be able to overcome the significant disadvantage of a jittery input to even match the TP's performance, let alone exceed it. A few DACs are claimed to be immune to input jitter. This is probably the case (for example for the Lavry), but then you are only guaranteed an equal playing field for a $1000 DAC vs. $2000 TP. Still highly unclear that the external DAC wins. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 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
