opaqueice;184856 Wrote: > ... it seems (for reasons discussed in this thread and many times before > on this forum) that a SB or Transporter using its own DAC has a huge > advantage over nearly any external DAC. Why do so few people here use > it that way?
I think most have tested things out, and found out that for whatever reasons the setup they sttled for sounded the best. Jitter at the digital input certainly is not ever going to be the one and only thing that will result in differences coming out on the A end of a DA subsystem. And it stands to reason that more comproming DA designs may sound better than the DA of a $299 SQB despite possible clock mismatches of the separate components due to jitter. I did initial tests, and while the DA in the SQB seems very good, I somehow preferred the external DA option and could hear a clear difference. For one, due to my power setup I had a slight hum issue. I could easily solve it with very little work, but it hasn't been a priority because I am throughly pleased with the sound as it is now, a huge testament to the SQB, which has rendered a $7k CD system increasingly jobless. I'll revisit it later. -- pablolie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33146 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
