Dedicated CD Transport vs DAC
Greetings,
Just some honest questions...
In your opinion, based on what you have actually experienced....
1) Which accounts for the most sonic improvement? A quality dedicated CD Transport or a Quality DAC?
2) If a person could assign a percentage... by what % did your cd transport improve your sound? By what % did your new dac improve your sound?
3) If you honestly gained an improvement in sound... was it like, " Oh my God, I can't believe how great this improvement is " or is it more like, " I can hear an improvement but no wheres nearly commensurate with the increase in price it cost me."
Coming from being highly invested in vinyl playback for the last 50 years... I'm struggling trying to decide how to improve the cd playback side of my system.
Up to this point in time, I've usually found cd playback to oftentimes sound hard, glaring, sterile, two dimensional, etc.
Which in your mind, helps to eliminate the above sound qualities that I dislike? A new dedicated cd transport or a new dac?
Thanks much for taking the time to reply and help me better understand!
Best wishes,
Don
@soix It would seem that we may have similar tastes with us both having AZ cabling and LTA products I appreciate you bringing up the DDC as an option and sharing the link for the Denafrips Hermes with me as well. I'll have to try and learn more about that as a possible option. Thanks again and best wishes, Don
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Don, I had a Mutec MC3+USB reclocker / master clock that I bought for my Aurender's USB out. That device can accept and distribute 10m and word clock . The Mutec 10m ref clock is $$$ so I thought for now I would try the LHY OCK-2 by Jay's Audio. It's really well built and can output sine or square wave at 50 or 75 Ohms so it's pretty flexible. The Teac clock is 50 Ohm sine wave but the 701t can accept either. I've been super busy so I haven't done as much listening as I hoped but so far I think I prefer the square wave, there is a difference. |
@oddiofyl I think I have read that using an external clock can really step up the sound of the Teac; not that the Teac is bad sounding on its own. In fact, I have been given the impression that most transports will benefit from using an external clock. The only transport that I have read about, so far, that hasn’t shown an improvement by using an external clock, is the Jay’s CDT3Mk3. It appears that the internal clock is of reference quality already. But, that transport costs $5000. Thank you for sharing your experiences with me! Best wishes, Don |
