paulster wrote: > I'm just going back to the original post. Why would you go for a > Transporter when you've come from a Touch? Especially if you're using a > DAC. > > The Touch can output 24/192 over USB with the EDO application, which > means you can get an asynchronous connection that will also allow you to > stream DSD in DoP format. > > Aside from having a pretty box, this doesn't make any sense. The > processor in the Transporter is marginal at being able to handle 24/96 > content as has already been discussed, so it's always operating at or > close to its limits with high resolution audio, and you've already said > you have material that is beyond its capacity to start with.
Hear what your saying Paul, but I've been away from Squeezebox for a number of years by going down the PC audio route. Bult own music server, pretty good imo, but it is a lot of hassle and extra boxes compared to Squeezebox way of doing things. Had a Touch, loved it, but wasn't as good as my PC based server playing music. Afer a number of years wanted to simplify, so bought a Transporter on a whim. One box does it all. The BNC SPDIF digital out of the Transporter is better than either the SPDIF or Edo USB output of the Touch in my opinion. Anything over 24/96 is wasted disk space...the improvement is arguable and most of the time hard to tell. For a file size 4 times bigger its not worth it. For my own DSD and SACD rips I'll make a copy and convert to Flac, happy knowing LMS downsampling them to 24/96 is good enough. Theres more to digital than 1's and 0's. Why does digital playback equipmant sound differenet? Why would Sean Adams build the Tranporter the way he did? Doesn't matter, I'm happy. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gazjam's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18604 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103125 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
