I don't have a transporter (wish I did!) so take this with a grain of salt: For PC listening (where I sit through most of most days) I had been using my PC's SPDIF out to a receiver, with ralphy's excellent squeezeslave. Sounded pretty good through nearfield monitors. Ralphy came out with an ASIO version (basically a direct-to-sound-device interface). My soundcard didn't have an ASIO driver, so I was using ASIO4All, which was a bit balky on shutdown - but worth it as the sound was a tad improved over going through Windows' directX audio mixer. I've recently added a Behringer 'UFO-202' (http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/616368-REG/Behringer_UFO202_UFO202_USB_1_1.html). Which is a USB device that has its own ASIO driver. Balky shutdown issues gone (not germane here) -but- the music quality got a tad better again (I'm hearing spatial info that I didn't before). If I had a transporter near a PC, and I wanted PC sound, I'd think seriously about using one of these (rather than the PC's built-in audio) to send SPDIF to the transporter. But, again, I don't have a transporter, so use some salt here...
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