What's wrong with pretty box :) transporter is a classic . Personally I have a Touch and as digital transport it's exatly as god as my meridian DVDA player ( as any decently functional digital transport nowadays any oppo or better ) .
The TP is darn cool , re " old " digital audio took giant leaps in the 80's and early 90's anything past 2k has the potential to be transparent including the old TP . These discussion is most like how many Angels can dance on top of a pin holding a pin with more dancing Angels ... A functional digital transport is just that , async USB is technically better if correctly implemented but you won't hear that . A decent spdif is certainly good enough . Old DSD64 SACD rips are probably best at 24/48 pcm so that the ultrasonic cruft can be removed. But Touch is more flexible it has a value to be able to play more formats without invoking the server transcoding . On the other hand it's solution in search for a problem IMO . You have a 24/192 of an album make a 24/96 copy or why didn't you buy the 24/96 in the first place and save some $$ they sound the same . DSD the very very few musically valid downloads you can get comercially guess what they are often aviable as 24/96 :) On the other hand the very few DSD only downloads can probably be converted too . Or you have the excellent play DSD plugin at hand I have 2-3 DSD albums very good recordings indeed , novelty value . No music I care for is released DSD only . For 99% of your music collection as a pure digital transport TP , Touch or DIY PI thing (tm) will be the same . For the 1% hirez oddities you have they will differ but you won't hear it unless the conversion path is broken . The Transporter has value due to,it's DAC with selectable analog out attenuators . Hmm I would certainly not mind the transporter as a functional bit of audio history :) But when my Touches bites the dust , I would probably nag you all in the picore or something else tread .. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 (spares Touch, 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=103125 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
