I don't believe that price is what matters! I started with the analogue outputs of the transporter and compared it to the Linn Akurate CD Player. I was surprised that it was difficult to hear a real diference, maybe the Linn had a better soundstage, but the rest was not really worth mentioning. Then I compared both with the Scarlatti DAC linked to the transporter. I would not say that it was distinctly better.
The situation changed, when I used the word clock output of the dac and connected it to the transporter. Now the dac acted as master and the transporter as slave. This really made a difference! Broader sound stage, great timing and a lot more details! The only downside is the flaw in the transporter: If it is set to word clock input and that signal stops (because you switch the dac to another input and it does not send a word clock signal) then the transporter crashes, has to be set to internal clock and then back to slave. The next step to avoid this was using a separate master clock and I also added the purcell upsampler. This gave the best sound I have ever heard with excellent musicality. You could clearly hear the different sound of the acoustic guitars Jackson Brownie is using in his life concert, piano sounds natural and voices as if the singers were just sitting there in your room. I cannot stop listening to all kinds of music and detect nuances which I have never heard before with different top systems. It is astonishing that also older simple CD-recordings have a great sound. I have all my Vinyls on the Hard drive and in this system I hear them as I would play them back via my turntable. I think the most important improvement to the system is using an external master clock for the dac and the transporter. I don,t know any other network player than the transporter where this is possible. But to get high end sound this feature is necessary. -- mofuv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mofuv's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13768 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41160 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
