PhilNYC;135174 Wrote: > At $2K, there's no way SD would be able to put in a high-quality analog > volume control that would be significantly better than the digital > volume control (assuming the Transporter oversamples and extends words > to 24-bit, the amount of "distortion" introduced by bit-shifting is > negligible until you get to very very low volumes). Wadia uses digital > volume controls, and no one every accuses their products of being less > than "high-end"...
Phil, Hi. I agree about Wadia using a great high quality very expensive digital volume control. it costs lots of money to do this right. So don't expect it at $2k...that's part of my point. It's a noisy solution. The Benchmark DAC gets good reviews when it bypasses the volume pot (i.e is used as a pure DAC into a preamp) for same reasons. I know why SD has it there....convenience, but certainly not for sonics. My point earlier was simply that if the volume option is sonically suboptimal and the poster wasn't going to use the dac in the Transporter, why buy it. -- ted_b ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ted_b's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3289 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27158 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
