dcolak;140084 Wrote: > I'm thinking of buying Benchmark DAC1, (192Khz 24bit DAC). Question of > the day is, can I feed DAC1 with 192Khz/24bit music from my PC, over my > wireless SB-3? > My question is... why would you concern yourself with 192K sources? It hasn't yet been demonstrated to me that 192K actually sounds better than 96K; and really, a sizeable portion of the 44.1/16->96/24 jump in quality (to my ears) comes when you go from 44.1/16 to 48/24, maybe just because of a few more bits of level resolution.
Do you have any actual, natively-192K/24 recordings, or are you just feature-counting? dcolak;140084 Wrote: > > While on the subject, what will give me a better sound, SB3->DAC1 or > Transporter? :) I haven't ever heard a DAC1, so this needs to be taken with an appropriate quantity of salt, but... my Transporter just arrived, and I listened to its analog outputs awhile before moving it to its intended place in a system which only accepts digital inputs. The Transporter's analog outs are SWEET. That is clearly a really nice DAC in there, and fed in a really low-jitter way. Nice, nice, nice. Dramatically nicer to my ears than a Bolder-analog-modded SB2 with a good linear power supply -- and that's right out of the box. If I were you, and didn't have that Benchmark yet, I expect I'd just forget the whole idea of an external DAC and get on the list for a Transporter. Put the money which would have gone for the DAC toward the Transporter, and enjoy both great sound *and* good looks and a nice interface. The second display panel actually meaningfully improves the user interface, especially when set to "Extended Text Display". -- jbm0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbm0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3949 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=27657 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
