95bcwh;179378 Wrote: > > Therefore, you'd still be better off buying a TP, provided that its > presentation is exactly what you've been looking for. Don't expect any > short-cut or money-saving alternatives in the attempt to match or beat > the TP, Slim Devices is NOT a snake-oil company, the company won't > charge you $2k unless there's significant audible improvement over a > $300 squeezebox, buying a TP already get you more than what you pay > for.
I'd be catious here. I certainly agree that SD is not a snake-oil company, and we know the TP digital out measures significantly better than the SB, so you're getting something for your money. But that does not mean there is a significant audible improvement, particularly when another device (the external DAC) is involved. In fact there is strong evidence that jitter-rejecting DACs will sound exactly the same given any digital input that isn't wildly distorted. For the analogue outs I don't know of any reliable listening tests for TP versus SB, but the general trend is that the differences are very small, and if Jan didn't hear a difference between a tube analogue output stage and the TPs I'd be inclined to think he wouldn't hear one between the SB and the TP. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 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
