willyhoops;202578 Wrote: > I can buy a squeezebox for £200 or a transporter for £1,300 here in the > UK from www.ripcaster.co.uk > > So for an extra £1,100 I can get a squeezebox with a quality DAC. But > it's still got a 35 character display and can't play 24bit 96kHz music > properly. Clearly it's going to last about six months and then be > redundant. Surely it's madness to buy the transporter when you can get > the benchmark 1 industry standard that audio engineers use for £700 > that can cope 24bit properly and has ultralock buffering to avoid > jitter etc. > > But all I need is a DAC with sound quality good enough to play through > £1,000 speakers and a £500 amp. I don't need a £700 killer.... just > something good which the SB3 clearly is not. Even my father who is 70 > years old (lord justice hooper) and came to dinner last night could > tell the difference between my yamaha cd / hard drive player and the > squeezebox in seconds - it's depressing. I was trying to interest him > in a squeezebox and he said "not if it sounds like that". > > Can someone recommend a shop in London where I can go an buy a DAC and > take it back if I don't like it. I am so fed up with buying stuff on > dodgy ebay.
AFAIK the Transporter is fine with 24/96. The SB3 is not, as it was never designed to be. I downsample my hi-res files to 24/48 or 24/44.1, and they sound great. Having an all-in-one box like the Transporter is always going to be a better jitter solution than an external DAC over SPDIF (all other things being equal). The Transporter has amazingly low jitter figures. If you equate sound quality with low jitter, buy a Transporter. Any quality hi-fi shop will normally allow you to take away their demo stuff on a Saturday evening (credit card covered, of course) and return it on the Monday. Find one that sells the stuff you're interested in, strike up a nice working relationship with them and they will be nice to you. You should try it sometime :) I have found good sound can be found in the SB+, which is £1k and available on a 30-day trial. I have no idea (and do not care) what its jitter measurements are; it sounds great. Good sound does not become redundant. If the TP sounds good, it will not be redundant. It may be improved upon, but that does not invalidate the initial purchase. There will always be something better, but whether it is worth the wait is debatable. If it sounds good enough for you, and you can afford it, I would suggest you buy it. Adam -- adamslim Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others http://www.last.fm/user/AdamSlim/ 'Last.fm group: people who don't listen to any of last.fm's top artists' (http://www.last.fm/group/People+who+don%27t+listen+to+any+of+last.fm%27s+top+artists) SB+, EAR 859, Living Voice Auditorium II plus some other stuff SB3, Shek d2, Ming-Da MC84-C, Harbeth HL-P3ES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamslim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7355 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35357
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