opaqueice;185301 Wrote: > In my opinion reviews based on someone's subjective impressions of audio > quality are totally meaningless. On the other hand it sounds as though > the parts of the review which are more objective (build quality etc.) > are quite positive.
Do you mean to say that listening results have no place in a review? That's certainly not a view I would support. For those of you old enough to remember Stereo Review magazine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereo_Review) - towards the end it was only measurements and totally worthless in helping one decide what components were worthwile. Getting back to this review, I will admit that the results as presented here do seem a bit odd. I haven't read the actual review as I suspect is true of most commenters. My experience is that the Transporter is a very good transport when feeding an external DAC and very close to a very high end transport. If the reviewer finds a big difference then it suggests there could have been some issues with the way Slimserver was set up. However, it doesn't surprise me to hear that the reviewer preferred an external DAC to the DAC in the Transporter. I had the same opinion. Overall, it was still a rather positive review and should be taken that way. Sure the reviewer found some things to complain about but also found many things to praise and stated that he expected even better in the future. Slim Devices should be pleased - this is good press. ---Gary -- GaryB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GaryB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3169 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33276 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
