ralphpnj wrote: > Let it be said: Digital audio did slay the audiophile. > > I am always amazed after all these years just how much the high end > audio world still clings to the old analog audio beliefs ...
Well, it *depends* on what you mean. I fully agree that a bit-perfect digital signal doesn't get any better if you spend another $1k on esoteric USB and Ethernet cabling. But then again, you can screw things up even in the digital domain if you don't pay some attention to good quality connections, and some attention to detail never hurts. Ask any Data Center architect :-) And there is still the "A" in DAC that means not every DAC designed around SABRE or the next coolest chipset sounds the same. How you route the analog signal, how clean your power supply is... the analog basics are still there. It doesn't matter if you've upsampled to 128bits and 3.2GHz in the digital domain if you dirty up the analog back-end. So I agree with you statement if what you mean is that... never has it been easier for an audiophile to get bit-perfect source material and feed it into the analog rest of the chain. Which begins within the DAC itself. Personally I wouldn't set up a Transporter in my current listening environment even if I scored it for free. I don't have the room (and I am perfectly happy with what I have), but that said, anyone that happens to like the Transporter and is willing to pay its going rate, hey, they get a very good piece of gear; and value is in the eye of the beholder. We all have our pockets of irrationality that make us a tag happier. :-D ...pablo Server: Virtual Machine running Ubuntu 12.04 + LMS 7.7.3 on VMware Player System: SB Touch --optical->- Benchmark DAC2HGC --AnalysisPlus Oval Copper XLR->- Creek Destiny Power Amp --AnalysisPlus Black Mesh Oval->- KEF LS50 Other Rooms: 2x SB Boom; 1x SB Radio; 1x SB Classic-> MusicalFidelity M1PWR -> Totem DreamCatcher ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
