Hi all. This has certainly been an interesting thread with a lot of spleen-venting!
As I have detailed in my own thread which started as "Unused Transporter SE's on eBay.com" but continued into recent changes to my own system, I am now using a Mytek Brooklyn DAC with my own Transporter. I don't claim that its DAC itself is audibly superior (although it would measure better in lab tests) to that of the Transporter's, but what does seem to me to make a difference is slaving the Transporter to the Brooklyn's word clock output. This reduces the jitter on the stream of 0's & 1's feeding the DAC from around 20ps to 0.8ps. I know that Sean worked hard in 2005 to keep the jitter on the Transporter to a minimum, but if you think he thought 20ps was sufficiently low to be inaudible you might ask why he then also gave the Transporter a word clock in connection. If you don't believe me, try it for yourself: no exotic cabling, just standard "studio grade" cables from Canford Audio, which are probably exactly the sort of interconnects used to make the recordings you're listening to in the first place... I cheerfully wait to be flamed by someone about this, but jitter is the only thing that can affect a digital signal (other than losing some of the 0's & 1's of course). My brain, like the vast majority of musical instruments, is an analogue device not a digital one - I am not aware of any scientific principle that establishes a minimum jitter threshold of inaudibility... Happy listening, Dave :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Golden Earring's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=66646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
