I took delivery of my SB yesterday and was soon up and running - well I already has Squeezecentre installed and had been using Softsqueeze on an old Shuttle PC behind the TV - that was noisy, of course so it was not used often.
The SB increases the clarity of the FLAC stream into the DAC - quite an impressive difference - I was not sure what the Shuttle was doing before it passed the data by optical link to the Beresford DAC. Alien BBC now works faultlessly - with Softsqueeze I had some problems. The quality of the plastic mouldings is impressive and the general build quality looks very good. I paid £121 from Amazon for a SB3 in damaged outer packaging. Now the Transporter cost ten times that. That is a very big jump in any product range. Can it really be ten times better (whatever that means) I am not a poor man: if the Transporter was half the price I wouldn't think twice about it. "I am reviewing . . . the sit-u-a-tion." ! -- Labarum Brian Beresford DAC - Quad 405-2 refurbished by 405man - Quart 980s German Tower Loudspeakers. FLAC through Foobar, XP and ASIO Squeezebox 3 Classic Virgin Cable Box No FM reception for Quad tuner - but both digital radio sources are better ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Labarum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19963 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=54335
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