By the way, the Bolder SB2, and Modified Transporter are from me. I brought them to the meeting. And of course I have listened to all of them in my system.
Jan is talking about transporter feeding the Lite-DAC60 having the same sound as the transporter analog out. I have never listened to this setup so I can't, but I have listened to the stock SB3 feeding the Lite-DAC60 compared with the transporter analog out. In that instance, the transporter is of course warmer, smoother, and goes deeper. The digital section of the modified transporter is probably just as good as a digitally modified squeezebox with Silver/Gold Bybee. It's warm, smooth, no glare. I have listened to the stock transporter but still prefers the digitally modified squeezebox, and now I heard the modified transporter and I was very impressed with it. I cannot comprehend what Jan was referring to as "weird" sound from the Bolder SB2, it certainly didn't sounded "weird" to me in my sytem. But there's a bit regrets with the setup Jan listened because all the sources goes through a preamp, whereas my experience has always been running the Bolder SB2 analog out and the transporter analog out directly into the power amp. I didn't get to hear them in similar manner at the meeting because when we set up the transporter directly into the amp, it generated a loud pink noise and that got the host a little nervous. So since then everything has to go through a preamp. Jan was also talking about hearing a difference between the transporter and the ARCAM CDP, from my past memory of listening to the ARCAM, if I am to describe each of them in terms of "warmness", the the ranking goes: ARACM > Transporter analog out > Bolder SB2 analog out > Stock SB3 analog out. So the ARCAM is warmest, but warm doesn't means best sound or vice versa. It all depends on what you're looking for, and how well it match with the rest of your gears. -- 95bcwh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 95bcwh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4358 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20789 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
