I don't know if I am jaded but I've played with lots of equipment over the years and keep learning every day about what kind of sound turns me on. I also believe that as my "ears" evolve into this game I am tending more and more toward the neutral. While this should be no surprise in general it took me a while to get around to it.
I have been a Squeezebox user more or less since V1 came out. Skipping over v2, I now use an SB3. I have tried it by itself as well as with a few DACs: the ubiquitous Benchmark, Paradisea, and this year the Bel Canto DAC2 followed by DAC3, and now using the Lavry DA10. This also pretty much reflects my order of preference (counting backwards, that is). Earlier this year I owned the Transporter for a brief time. While I was quite happy with it initially and when I compared it to SB3+DAC2, when I acquired a DAC3 the Transporter found its way onto Audiogon. Why? I found there was missing a certain 'life' to the music, which was only apparent upon comparison. So while I think the TP is a great one-box solution and has the added advantage of hi-rez and some other things, it was bested by the lowly SB3 in my system, albeit coupled to a DAC that cost more than the TP. I have since found that I prefer by a slight margin the Lavry DA10, not to say it is similar to the DAC3; rather it presents quite differently. It probably is the non-OS that I am drawn to, not consciously as I really am format-neutral in the best possible way and try hard not to go into anything with preconceived notions of any kind. My experience; YMMV. I am not a frequent poster here but am quite active on three of the well-known audiophile forums. -- KCK ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KCK's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16397 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=52554 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
