Under a properly conducted level-matched A/B/X test I would imagine no audible difference between the Transporter and SB3. There is nothing in the Transporter spec that I can see significantly improving the sound quality for most users. Balanced analogue XLRs are nice but generally not necessary for *most* home audio unless you really do need the interference rejection and are running long cables. Otherwise RCA will give you all the quality you need. The digital connectors are nice but streaming lossless data over Wifi is all I personally use. S/PDIF, yuk. I2S, yum. An outboard DAC might sound different but then it's really a preference thing.
I expect to see a lot of comment from the audiophile community over the coming weeks about how the Transporter is more 'musical', has better 'timing' and 'rhythm' and simply 'sounds like music'. Y'know, that sort of stuff. Or they'll just say it's not much cop. It's a lovely piece of kit but at 2 grand definitely not for me. If they can shove slightly upgraded SB3 internals into that case and charge $600 or something then I'm all ears. A functionally identical product line that now goes from $299 to $1999 with a gaping void in between is frankly silly. -- GeeZa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GeeZa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5563 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25810 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
