cliveb;154295 Wrote: > It's just occurred to me that the one test you haven't run is to feed > the NAD directly from the SB analogue output. This eliminates the > Yamaha entirely from the equation. If by doing this, you get the same > bad sound, then the SB DAC is implicated. If you get good sound, then > something in the Yamaha is implicated.
I have run this test and got the less than adequate results. One thing I didn't mention is that my original acid test was playing a CD. The CD player fed the Yamaha as pre-amp and then passed the signal through to the NAD amp. The resulting sound quality could only be duplicated by using either the digital optical or the digital coax output of the SB2. With the SB2 digital outs the sound was every bit as good as the CD input (some said better). So I'm not just evaluating louder sound or a bass-ier sound. I want the SB2 to sound as good as the CD. Because I'm separating my serious listening from my home theater (and leaving the Yamaha with the HT), I don't have a way to hook my SB2's digital outputs to my amp. So I've decided to bite the bullet and buy a Transporter. I plan to use the Transporter as a preamp and run balanced cables from it directly to my NAD amp and I take it on faith that it will match or exceed the sound my CD player was producing. -- beerbunny ------------------------------------------------------------------------ beerbunny's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2600 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29526 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
