agentsmith;392448 Wrote: > Yes it does sound like the Transporter runs with the best of them. I > was wondering how people acquainted with high end DAC costing 10X+ of > the Benchmark or Lavry DACs think of how the Transporter analog stacks > up. >
I am running my Transporter into the digital input of an APL NWO 3.0. I have also run the XLR analog balanced outputs of the Transporter through the NWO in bypass mode. The NWO is running direct to the amp. I was able to compare the Transporter analog outputs to sound processed through the NWOs DAC and also to the same CD playing on the NWO. My Transporter has clock and power supply mods by APL but none to the analog output stage. I use the BNC digital output. My opinion is that the Transporter analog ouput sounds very good provided that the volume level is kept in is kept high enough so that bits are not disgarded. Compared to the NWO in DAC mode, the analog output sounds a bit dry. It is easy to compare the sound of the attentuators and the NWO's is much better. It operates in analog mode at higher volume settings and switches over to digital attentuation at lower volumes. Transporter owners can add analog attentuators to their system if driving amps directly. As far as CDs playing on the NWO versus the Transporter, the NWO has superior resolution on well recorded CDs. The degree depends on the digital cable used and this is probably system dependent. My goal was to find the cable that sounded closest to the NWO in CD mode. After trying several, I chose the Von Gaylord digital. It took several months for thia cable to break in and at first sounded not as good than some others I was trying (ART, Von Gaylord analog, various CATV samples, closet cables). With these other cables there was some degree of a signature (hardness, dialectric signature, impaired focus or other subtle irritaion) evident. Currently the transport in the NWO is used mostly to play SACD and DVD-As. 90% of CD listening is done using the Transporter driving its DAC. Bob -- DotSystem ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DotSystem's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15213 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=59067 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
