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Title: Transport vs Player
Post by: jpschust on March 31, 2004, 11:18:23 AM: OK, Still working on building my home system and looking at some upgrades in the coming months. What is the difference between a transport and a player?

Is it that the transport has no d/a in it and you are going external for that? Is there osmething more?

Jonny
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: BC on March 31, 2004, 12:06:13 PM: Quote from: Blake Spector on March 31, 2004, 11:18:23 AM
OK, Still working on building my home system and looking at some upgrades in the coming months. What is the difference between a transport and a player?

Is it that the transport has no d/a in it and you are going external for that? Is there osmething more?

Jonny

correct, with a transport you will need an external D/A converter.
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: jpschust on March 31, 2004, 12:09:01 PM: ok then the next question- are cd or sacd transports any different from eachother? i mean they are all passing 0/1's
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: dmonterisi on March 31, 2004, 12:14:38 PM: i believe they are widely different in the amount of jitter they produce.
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: jpschust on March 31, 2004, 12:19:19 PM: ok so then next question, im debating buying a bel canto d/a or the benchmark d/a, is a 300 dollar transport gonna really crimp my system (ie the idea of running oktavas into a v3)
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: dmonterisi on March 31, 2004, 12:21:34 PM: i can't answer that as i do not have an external D/A...check out this oade thread (http://www.oade.com/Tapers_Section/Forum/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=101&topic_id=358&mode=full)
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: jpschust on March 31, 2004, 12:24:19 PM: cool, thanks damon!
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: dmonterisi on March 31, 2004, 12:26:33 PM: Quote from: Moke on March 31, 2004, 12:25:08 PM
I'm a Bel Canto fan!,..... though sadly, at present, I listen through the onboard dacs :-X Gonna be that way for a while too, 'cuz sarge has done shut me down on spending.
(anyone wanna buy a boat? ;D )

you spent your allowance too quickly and now you've been shut down!
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: jpschust on March 31, 2004, 12:27:01 PM: the two happiest days of a boat owner- the day he buys it and the day he sells it
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: Nick's Picks on March 31, 2004, 01:20:15 PM: Good one Mike!

as to transports and such....

One thing to be *warry* of is older transports may not like a lot of CD-Rs. Carl can only play about 1/3rd of his CDs due to his old parasound not liking them.

I have been VERY happy with the Musical Fidelity CD-PRE24, which is an SS preamp, transport and DAC right out of the tri-vista CD player (which is sweet, and sells for around $5k). I paid $1290 for it brand new. Replaced my tube pre, philips 963sa that I used as transport, and my smART DIO DAC, all in one box. Got to sell all that gear, two pairs of ICs and a digi cable. Paid for itself, and BLOWS my old setup AWAY !!

Cant stress enough the importance of a good front end. Its where the "crap in , crap out" rule starts.
actualy I guess it starts w/the listening material, but this is 2nd in line.

fwiw, I really like the Benchmark...but think it may be a tad bright sounding???
Title: Re:Transport vs Player
Post by: carlbeck on April 06, 2004, 06:02:55 AM: It "may" be a little bright but in my system used as a pre-amp mated to a big tube amp it is just the right amount of detail vs. brightness. I think it is the best bang for the buck I have in my system. Nick's MF set up is really sweet as well & not any more than a Benchmark & transport. The transport made a huge difference in my system, it is smoother sounding, closer to what I would call analog. Mine is older & won't play any discs that are not silver but man it's worth it!