Most of the time I love an esoteric discussion. :-) I'v come to understand that the audiophile Transporter sports a AKM4396 DAC where as the Touch has a mere (?) AKM4420. The specs can be found 'here ' (http://www.akm.com/akm/en/file/datasheet/AK4420ET.pdf)and 'here' (http://www.akm.com/akm/en/file/datasheet/AK4396VF.pdf). Ain't that cute? now we can compare apples with apples. The THD+N of the 4420 is claimed to be -92dB, the 4396 has a -100dB on 44.1kHz and a -97dB on 96 or 192kHz but the transporter only supports 96 material.
Let's assume that the human ear will not be able differentiate between 8dB of harmonic distortion (it won't, will it?), will the better reference voltage of the transporter be able to make a essential better/stable digital-analog conversion? Having a Denon AVR 1912, sporting AK5358BET it is not clear if it has a THD (look 'here' (http://www.akm.com/akm/en/file/datasheet/AK5358BET.pdf)) but it probably has, would I be better off listening to the DAC of Denon or the ones off Squeezeboxes? Logitech Media Server 7.9.0 / Arch64 / Intel 945GCLF2 Living:'Transporter Second Edition (smashing wiki page!)' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Transporter), 'Touch' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Touch), 'Denon AVR 1912' (http://www.denon-hifi.ch/ch/product/pages/product-detail.aspx?catid=hometheatre&subid=avreceivers&productid=avr1912)' + two CM8, two CM1, CMC' (http://www.bowers-wilkins.net/Speakers/Home_Audio/CM_Series) Study:'Classic, Quad 303 + two Quad ESL 57' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?43875-A-SB3-a-Quad-303-and-the-left-hand-ESL) Kitchen:'Radio White' (http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Radio) 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/th00ht), 'SoS, ' (http://www.bowers-wilkins.com/Society_of_Sound/Society_of_Sound/Music/download-manager.html)'EAC (free and great)' (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ th00ht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103776 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
