It depends how you will connect the Transporter to your system. If you connect it digitally, you can experience the following benefits:
- lower jitter. Whether you can actually hear this is up for debate. - better power supply/regulation/shielding. How this affects the digital output is rather controversial. - 96 kHz playback, if you have 96 kHz sources So digitally will be better, but whether you can hear the difference may be debatable. If you connect it via analog: - you take advantage of the Transporter's SOTA DAC. It's better than the SB3's DAC and probably better than the Outlaw 990's DAC. - better power supply/regulation/shielding. This may have a larger difference on analog playback. - 96 kHz playback, if you have 96 kHz sources Note this all depends on how well the 990 handles analog sources. Its analog implementation may be worse than its digital implementation, which will wipe out any sound gains. This is unfortunately the case with my A/V receiver, see http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=124333&postcount=14 However I remember reading posts on AVS Forum that the 990 does analog rather well. What could be a real advantage though is the Transport's digital inputs, which allow you to use the Transport DAC for other digital sources. As I said, the DAC is probably better than the Outlaw's DAC. Where the Transporter could really shine is if the user has a system capable of XLR inputs, a digital source with BNC or AES/EBU outputs or an external clock source. Those are features hardly anyone else offers, and not at this price point either. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25810 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
