I briefly ran my Airport Express into my 7510 and couldn't hear much difference from the direct SPDIF, but it was very brief!!
I currently run a 4m (Flashback) Toslink cable direct from my G5 to the 7510.
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I briefly ran my Airport Express into my 7510 and couldn't hear much difference from the direct SPDIF, but it was very brief!!
I currently run a 4m (Flashback) Toslink cable direct from my G5 to the 7510.
Hmmm. That's very interesting and certainly news to me. I've believed for a long time that the Transporter was better at the S/P-DIF output.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
I'll go and have a read.
Mind you, they are mostly Americans over there and they are mostly cloth-eared so I take anything they say with a pinch of salt where hifi is concerned :lolsign:
If it's true then maybe jitter isn't as big an issue as I've always been lead to believe or maybe the bar for jitter audibility is set above the level at which these modern devices operate, SB3 included.
Certainly low jitter isn't the only reason the Transporter sounds good.
Hey Chris,
yeah thats what they say, but as you say theres more to the transporter than just low jitter. USed as a one box solution theres not much to touch it.
I'd love to have one, but not purely for sound reasons.
Used as a transport though, not a lot of difference in the real world between it and an SB3 over SPDIF apparently.
All the more reason for Mr. Labarum to pop over here with his SB3 then http://www.technobear.btinternet.co....ticons/yep.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
It's only 30 miles from Warminster to Glastonbury.
I work from home so am pretty flexible on time http://www.technobear.btinternet.co....ons/cafepc.gif
Brian?
You up for that? :)
Thanks guys.
I wanna go with the cable option rather than the Airport Express. It's gotta be cheaper that way anyway. If the mac was in another room and cabling wasn't an option then I'd stream, but as it is......
I just wasn't sure about 5m+ toslink cable.
Take a look up into the night sky.Quote:
Originally Posted by webby
Some of those little pin-pricks of light have travelled for millions of years and gadzillions of miles to reach us.
Have no fear - the light from your Mac Mini will have no problem traversing a mere 5 metres of optical cable.
:lolsign:Quote:
Originally Posted by technobear
Thanks, cornflakes now splurted all down the front of my trousers! :)
Could be a factor though, as with coax digital, 1.5m is apparently a "golden length" (minimising jitter on the transmission line - or sumfin') so I'd have wondered too.
:)
This is something that i somewhat believe also, would be great for the guys with Transporter/SB3 + Caiman to hook up and thrash out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gazjam
I also would like to see a Transporter/SB3 versus PC w/soundcard shootout also, something like a c-media chipset card which can use Asio and bypass the internal resampling of XP/Vista for eg.
I had a good roam over the Slim Devices audiophile forum yesterday evening and I could find very little on the subject of TP vs. SB digital outputs.
What I did find was not conclusive.
Some people hear no difference.
Others do claim to hear a difference.
The Transporter definitely has a better clock than the SB and much greater attention to detail on the circuitry, power supplies and so on so there's every reason it should have lower jitter at the digital output.
Jury's still out until I hear it for myself.
I'm expecting the Transporter to win.
But then I expected the Transporter's DAC to be better than the Caiman :scratch:
We shall see.