If you can buy a Transporter for $1000 and have the money, buy a Transporter. You will not regret it. You might even prefer the Transporter's DAC over your external.
If you really like the sound of your current external DAC and are only looking for a digital transport and don't have to have the best, then the Touch is the obvious choice. The Touch really narrowed the space between the SB3 and the Transporter on the Digital Coax side. So if you don't need that extra 10 or 15% then buy the Touch and save $700. For me its a much harder game as to when to use Transporter as a digital transport only. On the low end DACs, there comes a point where in my opinion using a Transporter is over kill (read one should be using the TP without a DAC instead) to feed an external DAC. Conversely it gets to a point that the external DAC is very expensive and very good and should be feed by a Transporter. So for me it comes down to available money and really how good the external DAC is. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=80128 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
