highdudgeon;137968 Wrote: > Very well said. > > As for transports, well, everyone has their favorite. The Ayre is an > absolutely first-rate piece of gear and quite good enough for a senior > reviewer. What is lacking in it? Of course, one can take the time to > do exhaustive double-blind tests to come to more critical conclusions. > > But the fact remains: the Lavry Blue, Gold, and now the DA10 are > essentially immune from jitter and, as expained, deal with it after > buffering incoming information. Above post: you're right, Lavry is > fairly unique in handling things in this manner. What you get doesn't > sound like the transport; it sounds like the DAC -- and the DAC is > accurate. It doesn't matter whether you're feeding it with a Pioneer > CD player from Best Buy or a $6k transport. Either way, you get all > the bits (it's just that one is a lot more jittery than the other). > The DAC deals with the jitter, though, so the transport question is put > on a level playing field.
If the Lavry is immune from jitter, why are you buying a Transporter? Your main man REG said: "As far as I am concerned, especially since the $1,000 or so pro DACs are effectively perfect to my ears. Unless one is desperate for wireless for some reason, I think there is no reason to go beyond those devices(Lavry,Benchmark,etc.) that unless money is just buring a hole in your pocket" -- mauidan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mauidan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1679 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27452 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
