jimmypowder wrote: > Then why does my Transporter sound better then my SBT fed into the same > dac,playing the same speakers ? > The player seems to matter here .
Does it really , have you tried that assumptions under blind conditions ? Any reasonably good transport will sound the same in to any reasonably well designed DAC . There can be other reasons than jitter if it's really a difference , good old fashioned electrical noise , tried the toslink ? Almost all existing transports spinning or not have jitter levels far below what's audiable . You should go to archimagos blog and see his different measurements on euipment he have measured many aspects on squeezeboxes . On topic does not EDO with vortexbox or CSOS version of LMS support DSD ? DoP or what's it called . It may eventually show up in the regular LMS as a plugin ( by triode I think ) . Or be pragmatic about it and convert the DSD to 24/88.2kHz flac for greater compatibility the eventual magic sauce in DSD is the actual recording , consumer playback format do not matter that much if they are >=Redbook the actual quality of the recording has much more influence.. Is there really any real music avaible in DSD yet or it's only special audiophile labels ? And the quantities are small anyway . Would you really get the optimal DAC for your music collection if you must tick the DSD box to narrow the choices ? You may exclude perfectly fine DAC's that just don't have DSD . Not that I doubt that the Marantz kit mentioned may be a contender anyway and DSD is a bonus function . Been there done that got the t-shirt , I jumped on the DVDA bandwagon a decade ago and do have a lot of discs but it could go months between actual playback . And that's when I want to hear discrete multichannel I have normal stereo,rips of these disc that suffice in many cases . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101584 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
