simbo wrote: > I've been away from the SB scene for a while (except for using them to, > well, listening to music) but my wife bought me a Little Dot I+ > headphone amp for Christmas and I think I'm getting the bug again. > > So my question is, after all these years, how good are the SB DACs > compared to what is on the market these days? The Transporter DAC was > considered the best around at the time, if I remember correctly. Even > the SB3 DAC was well rated. > > How do these compare to some of the cheap small DACs like the FiiO? Do > you get better DACs in your mobile phone nowadays than the venerable > Transporter? > > Cheers all, and happy new year :-)
If you've been away a long time, perhaps you have yet to discover Archimago's enlightening measurements of many different audio devices? http://archimago.blogspot.ca Best Regards, Gandhi not often enough well recorded and mastered cds *|* dbpoweramp with accuraterip *|* flac *|* fanless asrock z77e-itx intel i5-3570t *|* ubuntu 12.04.1 lts 32-bit *|* lms 7.8.0 *|* brutefirdrc 3.0 (rewv5) *|* transporter (balanced out) *|* thule ia252b *|* audio physic scorpio *|* no fancy cables. *+* also some booms. *+* harmony 525s for them all, including waking the server from s3. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gandhi's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58909 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102852 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
