Mark Lanctot;232120 Wrote: > Probably true, but did you get that uncompressed track to play? Until > you compare lossless, it's supposition. > > Actually when used purely as a transport, the SB3 has nothing to be > ashamed of. Its jitter numbers are extremely low. And with a secure > ripper and AccurateRip, we know for a fact that the bits coming out are > identical to those off the CD. The humble SB3 has an advantage over a > regular CD transport here - the ripping process can be done over and > over again to ensure the bits are perfect, a transport has only one > shot at it no matter how good it is.
I have actually done head-to-head on this and running the SB3 versus my CD transport into the same DAC. The transport edges the SB3 out in air, depth and weight. Not by much though, and given the cost of each, the SB3 is absolutely amazing. I used several cables for SPIDF, but the real advantage on my transport is by using the AES/EBU connection. That may have been a factor. I can see my future system using a server transport feeding a high end DAC. -- dewinkle ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dewinkle's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11447 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38176 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
