SB (and TP) are just ways of getting digital audio from a computer to an amplifier. There are plenty of other ways to do that, but the SB has a number of advantages - it has a nice display, a remote, it's small, it can play internet radio, the sound quality (when fed lossless files at least) equals or exceeds a CD player, and most of all it's wireless, so it doesn't have to be anywhere near the computer.
Transporter, at least in theory, has all that plus an advantage in sound quality over any external DAC or CD player because it can use a dedicated local oscillator to clock out the data from its own solid state buffer, rather than reconstructing a clock from an incoming S/PDIF or CD reading mechanism and having to deal with jitter. (SB also has that advantage, but wasn't built to the same cost-no-object standard.) -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40647 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
