Hello, well, we are right into transporter versus modding wars again. And Harmonic is back on stage again. Ah, not to forget Phil. Well, I can not say much about the TP despite the fact that when we rebuilt the chain at my local dealer we replaced the Marantz with the Amp I v2 by Audionet and got a huge difference in sound quality. We matched volumes not by spl meters but via the db displayed by transporter and the Marantz (when using the Amp I v2 the TP was the only volume control in the chain). So in some sense it might be true that there are better dacs out there then the so-called miracle/marketing dac by AKM but I think the Tp's is quite decent and well we made an assumed improvement by changing the main amp or by removing the preamp stage entirely. So FinkAudio might or night not be right. But my listening experience suggests that the Marantz is limitted in some way. We tested some other main amps along with the Amp I v2. None of the three tested did the same effect to the music. I forgot them all but the Amp I v2 stood out of the row. I think it was Clive who said that removing the preamp from his chain was one of the biggest improvements within years. Well Carl-Heinz if you know the Marantz and the Audionet stuff well or even sell it... Drop us some more lines... Cheers Jeronimo
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