How does a Transport effect sound?


hi guys,

Been wondering about this: How does a CD Transport effect sound?  Isn't it just reading the disc and sending the 1s and 0s to the DAC.  Shouldn't every transport sound the same?

Thanks! 
leemaze

Stick to an all-in-one-box player and the interface problem is eliminated! OPPO!!!

No interface problem, but you are stuck with this jitter that you can do nothing about:

http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=154408.msg1650944#msg1650944

That is unless you open it up and mod it, and even then, the results will never be as good a an external reclocker.

Steve N.

Empirical Audio

Steve N.,
thanks for the offer to test the two cables above.  Both are outfitted with BNC RCA adapters.  it will be interesting to compare your measurements to your silver cable and any subjective listening impressions.  Am I sending these to Bend?
Found this on PSA forums if anyone is interested...Reply about the Synchro-Mesh via Ted Smith.
https://forum.psaudio.com/t/titan-audio-helen-that-can-be-used-wtih-dmp-and-perhaps-dsd/5060/9


ASRC (asynchronous sample rate conversion) is the mechanism it uses to lower jitter. I’m not a fan of that - but some like the change in the sound. My problem with ASRC is that it resamples the input with a more accurate clock - but tho the output clock may indeed have less jitter than the input, to do that it changes the data (it calculates the values needed on the output to represent the input signal including it’s jitter) - the input jitter is now encoded in the data and can never be removed downstream. Beside any philosophical issues, this breaks bit perfect playback and hence will break DSD playback, etc.