jhm731;161975 Wrote: > How many DACs have you tested with the Transporter to reach this > conclusion?
None - I don't have a TP. > 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. The one thing which is totally obvious is that people's opinions of how things sound vary tremendously, which means they are an extremely unreliable guide. Therefore I prefer to winnow down the number of options I consider using logic and reason, and then go listen to it and see if I like it, rather than rely on "so-and-so prefers such-and-such." There are two possibilities for a TP connected to an external DAC (I'm ignoring the wordclock option, which I agree is superior but requires a very expensive DAC): 1) TP connected to a DAC which is immune to jitter (if you don't believe such DACs exist move to option 2). In this case the transport is totally irrelevant sound-wise, so one should use the source which is most convenient/cheapest/prettiest, which is probably not the TP. 2) TP connected to a non-jitter-immune DAC. In this case the DAC is receiving a noisy signal, and therefore has an additional disadvantage before it can even equal the TP. Of course there may be DACs out there that can do this, or that simply have analogue stages that sound better to some people, but that would be the exception rather than the rule. -- 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
