darrenyeats;216092 Wrote: > No offense, but an SB3 is not the last word in sound quality. It is very > good, but the idea of putting it in front of dollar/pound five-figures > of amps and speakers is silly. An SB3 feeding $5000 speakers will almost certainly sound better than a Transporter feeding $3000 speakers. All this "source first" nonsense was exposed for the garbage it is years ago.
And as for whether an SB3 is "high-end", consider this: Before I bought an SB2, my system included £7000 active speakers, a £5000 CD player, and a £2500 preamp. When I bought an SB2 and stuck it in the system, I was amazed at how good it sounded - almost as good as the CD player. And then I realised that it was possible to feed the SB2's output direct into the active speakers, so I tried it. And you know what? It sounded *better* than the CD player+preamp combo. Less is more. The CD player and preamp were sold pretty quickly after this epiphany. (I still have the speakers, of course). Incidentally, I do now have Transporter - again feeding the speakers directly. I think it sounds heaps better than the SB2, but then I've never done a controlled blind comparison, so I could be deluding myself. But the TP is such a sexy device, I'm happy. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36994
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