How many DACs have you tested with the Transporter to reach this conclusion?
PhilNYC seems to think his Dodson DAC is better than the Transporter's DAC. Sleestack doesn't think it's total waste to use the TP as a transport. He uses TPs as transports in his systems. opaqueice;161971 Wrote: > 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 doubtful > that the external DAC wins, and you've spent significantly more than on > the TP alone. Furthermore in this case the TP as a transport is a total > waste - you should simply use a SB (or a $30 universal disc player, for > that matter). -- jhm731 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jhm731's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7685 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
