loserica;479873 Wrote: > My comment was meant to be a half-joke, in response to this affirmation > : "The DAC in the transporter is better than any DAC you may have." Fair enough. It is obvious that there could be better DACs available.
loserica;479873 Wrote: > Really, my problem is that I found out that the digital output of the > Duet is not as good as it gets (and that using a moderately priced DAC > such as the Lavry DA-10). I have tried three different transports, and > all were audibily better than the SB3 digital out. Interesting. Given that the Lavry DA10 is an example of a DAC that claims to be completely immune to input jitter, perhaps the differences between transports that you hear might possibly be nothing to do with jitter (in which case focussing on the TP's jitter spec may not tell you what you need to know). There are other plausible explanations, such as EMI fields from the transports that impinge differently on the DA10's analogue circuitry, or (if you're not using an optical connection) noise on the ground plane of the transport being injected into the DAC. (If you were doing the listening tests sighted, it could simply be psychological factors at work). My feeling is that the only way you will find out is to borrow a TP and see how it performs in your system using your DAC of choice. You clearly don't want to buy one on the off-chance it will sound better than an SB3 as a transport. -- 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=70626 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
