Can you get the Duet w/o it's dac or not? I love the duet function but if you have a benchmark why do you need another dac?
Benchmark DAC1USB vs PRE1 vs Transporter
as a 2 channels pre/pro in a 2nd system:
It will be used to drive a power amp (Ayre V3, I think the load is 10k) and will be connected via USB directly to a PC.
Pros? Cons?
- One big pro for transporter is the remote volume control
- One pro for PRE1 is the analog-in for SACD player
- DAC1USB is of course, the cheapest. (or use the $ for a good 2nd hand preamp?)
Benchmark PRE1 seems to have newer Op-amp compared to DAC1, is it true?
cheers,
It will be used to drive a power amp (Ayre V3, I think the load is 10k) and will be connected via USB directly to a PC.
Pros? Cons?
- One big pro for transporter is the remote volume control
- One pro for PRE1 is the analog-in for SACD player
- DAC1USB is of course, the cheapest. (or use the $ for a good 2nd hand preamp?)
Benchmark PRE1 seems to have newer Op-amp compared to DAC1, is it true?
cheers,
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I was in the same boat. I went with the Transporter. I already had a Squeezebox thus I didn't need the Transporter for the wireless capability. After doing a lot of reading, I decided the Transporter would sound better as well as limiting the number of pieces on the rack. It's close to my Rega Planet CD player. Here's a couple of URLs you might find interesting. http://www.slimdevices.com/temp/noise_floor.gif and http://www.slimdevices.com/temp/transporter_vs_benchmark.gif |
Saunderse wrote: "Forget the transport with the volume control. I guarantee you, that the pot in the transport, is in the signal path and is probably of very poor quality." This is incorrect, both the SB3 and Transporter use digital voume control; see: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=39611&highlight=digital+volume+control |
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