BT, There are several issues with your post:
1) I find it hard to believe that you can't find a very decent external DAC for well under the price of a new Transporter. 2) While the Transporter's internal DAC is quite good, on normal red book audio, i.e. 16 bit/44.1 kHz, it doesn't match the sound of an SACD. High resolution files, 24bit/48kHz or in the case of the Transporter up to 24bit/96kHz, also sound "better" than red book audio. 3) Unfortunately, SACD is slowly dying at very quiet death. On the other hand, I'm hopeful that more and more high resolution audio files will become available for purchase (mostly via direct downloads), in which case having a Transporter handy to play these files would be very useful. To summarize - SACDs usually sound better (the sound is very dependent on the SACD player) than the Transporter playing red book audio files. High resolution audio files also sound better than red book audio files. While the Transporter is a big step up from a SqueezeBox, since you already have a SqueezeBox I would spend a little more time researching external DACs before I purchased a Transporter. Of course, if you do end up getting a Transporter you can always use the SqueezeBox in another room. -- ralphpnj Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels -> Snatch -> The Transporter -> Transporter 2 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/jazzfann/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48748 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
