opaqueice;161971 Wrote: > To answer part of your question, on a technical level it's almost > certainly a bad idea to connect the transporter to an external DAC. > The reason is that any S/PDIF connection will induce jitter into the > digital signal, so the external DAC will be receiving a much noisier > signal than the internal DAC of the Transporter (or SB, for that > matter). Given that the TP was carefully engineered to maximize its > fidelity without (much) concern for cost, it's highly unlikely that any > external DAC will be able to overcome the significant disadvantage of a > jittery input to even match the TP's performance, let alone exceed it. > > A few DACs are claimed to be immune to input jitter. This is probably > the case (for example for the Lavry), but then you are only guaranteed > an equal playing field for a $1000 DAC vs. $2000 TP. Still doubtful > that the external DAC wins, and you've spent significantly more than on > the TP alone. Furthermore in this case the TP as a transport is a total > waste - you should simply use a SB (or a $30 universal disc player, for > that matter).
On a technical level you can amend things by SLAVING the transporter via word clock. This is better than a transporter + dac without word clock sync. And i believe there are quite a number of dacs that when clocked, can exceed the performance of TP. for example the emm labs. -- Konig ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Konig's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8490 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30530 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
