For those of you who have not yet read the TAS Transporter review here is a brief summary.
The review was written by TAS' in house digital and computer audio "expert" Steven Stone. Like all things TAS it is sorely lacking in the technical department, such as measurements and a full rundown of all the Transporter's functions, e.g. no mention of SqueezeNetwork, how digital audio files are decoded and streamed and little mention of SqueezeCenter. Stone does a fairly reasonable job of putting the Transporter through its paces and concludes that the Transporter is indeed a very fine sounding unit. However, he gets overly hung up on the point that when the Transporter is used as a digital preamp using the digital volume control may result in a slight sonic degradation. While it is good that Mr. Stone picked up on this digital volume control issue the amount of space given over to this point is way overboard. The reviews also fails to discuss how the Transporter and SqueezeCenter handle the various audio codecs currently available and pros and cons of a server based music system. So although the review is somewhat lacking Mr. Stone nonetheless gives the Transporter a very positive rating and does like both the sound and functionality of the unit, especially when playing back high definition (24bit/96kHz) files. -- 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=63161 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
