adrianh1960;181368 Wrote: > I have the Bel Canto DAC 2 which sounds good with my unmodded SB3 until, > that is I compare with my Audio Synthesis CD Transport through same. > With the CD transport while the sound very similar the CD transport is > somehow less coarse in midrange (Piano, Vocals, Guitar etc) and gives > the music more space and better soundstaging. Since the audio > synthesis uses its own modified SP/Dif output to presumably clean up > the clocking and reduce jitter I suspect that this is the key > difference so logically would expect the Boulder or SB+ to be more like > the CD transport. This is an interesting question. Over about a 6 week period, I have tried a few different configurations, did a lot of listening and asked all my friends for their preferences. The configurations were: CD (AudioNote CDT Two) -> DAC (AudioNote DAC5) -> Preamp Transporter -> Preamp Transporter -> DAC -> Preamp Somewhat to my surprise, the 1st one consistently sounded the best (here meaning richness of sound, soundstage, detail). Is there a likely engineering explanation? Or might this just be a preference in the way things sound?
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