Those who read my original post may be interested to know that I have found an affordable external DAC that improves on the sound produced by the analog outs of the SB3.
It is a Beresford TC-7510 (see http://www.homehifi.co.uk/main/main.html) modified from stock with the designer's "Class A" output stage. The unmodified unit, after burn-in, sounded identical (to me) to the SB3, and therefore the CI VDA-1 - which is to say, very good. The Class A mod, however, (an extra cost option) provided better defined bass and more transparency to the high frequencies. And, yes, all listening was done after careful level matching... :-) For a total of AUD350, I'm very happy... although I still lust after a Transporter. -- westernboy "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." Albert Einstein ------------------------------------------------------------------------ westernboy's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12768 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38553
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