NewBuyer;212692 Wrote: > I really wish the Transporter internal attenuation pads worked with the > balanced outputs as well (like the Benchmark DAC1 does). This would > have been ideal. If this had been done, I would have already bought a > Transporter. :) > > I wonder if SlimDevices would please consider making this the case with > later revisions of the Transporter. Direct connection to a balanced amp, > with no need for another device (active or passive) to attenuate, would > be an outstanding option to have. They understood this with the RCA > outputs, so why not the XLR outputs too? Just wishing/wondering. Balanced outputs are expected to have a low output impedance, so that they can drive long interconnects. Adding passive attenuation increases the output impedance, so perhaps Slim Devices felt that this would be somewhat "against the convention". Indeed, there was a thread after the announcement but before the release of the Transporter where a number of people (including myself) urged Sean to change the TP balanced output impedance from 1000 to 100 ohms, which he agreed to.
That said, if your interconnects are not too long, passive attenuation is fine. Since I'd guess that Transporters are likely to be used mainly in a domestic setting, where interconnects are not usually very long, adding an attenuation feature seems worthwhile. But that would probably require a revision of the main board layout, and on a low volume product like the Transporter this might not be feasible from a cost-benefit point of view. It's easy to add external passive attenuation, so it's not like this is a burning issue. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36550 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
