I've been reading this thread with great interest because I don't own a SB yet but I'm very interested by it.
Anyway, in my opinion, I think the most relevant piece of information here is what Philodox posted. He has a real life experience where his Eastsound CDP used as a transport into a DAC actually sounds better than his SB3 into the same DAC. Did he do a blind test, I don't know, but I guess we can trust that he did a "relatively objective" test since he owns both piece of equipment. To me, it would be really interesting if more people would post the real tests they did to verify is the SB3 digital out produces or not equal, higher or lower sound quality then high end CDP used as transports. The original poster was asking about a SB3 into a high end DAC versus a high end CDP, that would be not an objective test because the DAC in the CDP can be of lower or higher quality then the DAC used with the SB. However a high end CDP as transport into the same DAC used with the SB3 digital out produces a real "objective" test, like what Philodox did. Up to now, most of the "relatively objective" tests (magazine articles and forum threads) that I've read were pointing to the same conclusion as what Philodox said. Using a high end CDP as transport into a high end DAC and high end downstream system produces a "slightly" better sound quality then using the SB3 as transport. Is the SB3 an incredible bargain transport, sure. Is the SB3 an incredible high end transport, not quite it seems. -- Loftprojection ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Loftprojection's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5525 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24670 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
