It would be impossible to say for sure , the Transporter is well designed product developer by sane people . So the outputs should be ok all of them , the may differ measurably , but a product like this do not really have audible jitter levels for example .
AES/EBU is actually not better than spdiff on Transporter ( there are som words from the designer Sean Adams about that on this forum ) . AES/EBU has raised some magic thinking in audiophile press and fora as it is a "professional format" . The professional part is really about repurposing xlr cables and patch switch boards to make a conversion from analog to digital studio cheaper and simpler ,this was a concern in the 80's and 90's. So use any output they are probably all beyond human abilities to tell apart . On the other side the DAC you intend to use ? Then it can get different it should not but it can if that design is somehow flawed so it prefers one input . So no one can really say without knowing what DAC you intend to use . If we assume you buy any reasonably designed DAC , a say just pick one output . Best solution would be to actually sell the transporter and get an PI with some digital out board . Transporter is "only" a 24/96 device using the digital out would not change that . This would not matter much either but more exotic formats would need server transcoding . -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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=106519 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
