radish Wrote: > Not a chance. I'm not an audiophile by any stretch of the imagination, > but... just... no.
Any reason why? The output from my Mini + Fireface (800) goes into the dCS Elgar Plus, clocked by the Verona. It gives generally as good a result as I've ever heard out of a transport (including the Verdi La Scala sitting on the top of my stack. The Verdi is better but not definitively so). Mark Lanctot Wrote: > Hmm? I can easily read the display from 15 feet away (and I wear > glasses) plus it is a multiline display (2 lines). > > Also with the new 2-display Transporter, you may be able to stretch > text over both displays, which would make the text width at least as > wide as you'd get with a 15" monitor, even a 17" monitor. > > Take a helluva lot less real estate and power than a PC too, and even > quieter than a "low noise" fan. The two displays are intersected by the knob. You may be able to stretch it, but then you may not. 2 lines is not multiline. It's 2 lines. As for 15" 17" monitors or whatever, there's this thing called a TV in most people's living rooms, or in my case an ultra-quiet LCD panel. That's what my Mini is hooked up to and I don't have to squint at all to look at that. I wonder how many of you actually have experience of comparing the two. You know, I sweated for ages trying to silence my PC's. It was rapidly coming to the situation where I was about to throw in the towel. Then I got the Mac Mini and I realised I'd been completely wasting my time with PC's. Mini-ITX solutions I'm told are exceptionally silenceably these days, and many of these systems (including the Mini) run on 2.5" discs (which don't generally whine or whirr much). Noise is generally not an issue with these ultra silent computers. It pays to try lots of things as I've done before you pass judgement. The Transporter is I'm sure a very good option but it really needs more in terms of display and navigation (main and remote) capabilities, and as I said it seems overpriced compared to PC/pro soundcard-based solutions which offer I would say superior flexibility and as I said, audio ability on a par with the Transporter, especially if you're clocking/DACing for maximum results. I would imagine I'm part of the target market for the Transporter based on my audio expenditure at least. But -I- see better solutions. -- rhyzome ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rhyzome's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6370 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25771 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
