I have compared the TP and SB3 as well as some higher end dedicated transports (ML and Theta) as pure transports into various equipment , there was no audible difference - I also compared the TP via spdiff , toslink and AES/EBU and found no reliable audible difference between em - I used premium cables in all cases. I do however not believe that the TP's dac is the best out there as others I have tried seem to have better bass and more "air" or low level resolution. Im currently auditioning a PS audio perfect wave dac vs the Tp's. The one thing I have found in the digital domain , especially using a few DSP units in the effects loop is that various flavours of dither and noise shaping have a fairly large effect on the sonics. For example I have recently inserted a Behringer deq2496 in the loop for some headphone eq and merely changing it's dither from off to 24 bit has a huge impact on sonics. To cut a long story short - if you need a transport with spdif out only , there is no point in spending almost 10x the price of a SB3/classic for a TP.
-- Rodney_Gold Sb3/Z-sys RDP1/meridian DSP5500's TP/X-cans v3/Senns 650's TP/SCM 50a's SB3/Meridian DSP5000's TP/PS audio perfectwave DAC/woo audio Wa2 Headphone amp/Sehneisser Hd800's "The nicest thing about smacking your head against the wall is...the feeling you get when you stop" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rodney_Gold's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14618 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
