I bought a Transporter last year from the 'other' ebay vendor who's also selling them. I wanted to compare it with my Touch to see (or hear) if some of the claims I read were true about the Transporter sounding better. I'm not the bigger (or more expensive) is better type, so I was going to be judging the sound on a neutral plain. In fact, I was hoping my Touch would win or sound the same because I preferred its low profile and GUI over the Transporter, plus I couldn't afford to keep both units. So in essence, I wasn't planning on keeping the Transporter for too long.
Anyway, as soon as I played the Transporter I knew I'd be reluctantly keeping it. The sound quality was beyond what I was expecting. It was almost like I had upgraded my amp. I wrote the specific differences, but unfortunately I deleted the txt file by mistake. What stuck me from the beginning were the realistic symbol crashes and the deeper bass. Everything had more of a live, spacious sound. I'm not necessarily saying the DAC is better in the Transporter but obviously there are other forces at play, like analog output, power supply, circuit design, etc. Oh, and for those wondering, I did indeed level match. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fizbin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58734 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107045 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
