Wadia ITransport

Well done. iTransport one of major reasons I have not moved to computer audio. If Wadia developed a remote where you could see and control iPod menu, I would never move.

Neal

Neal,
I called Wadia and talked to one of their technicians about the IDock. I was interested about a certain magazines measure of high jitter and if they ever addressed it. I learned that Wadia was taken back by these claimes and I was told that 1, they did not measure in the right area and 2, in their design they actually address jitter to lower it. One thing of interest to me and perhaps you as well, is that in the next couple of months they will be shipping a higher quality remote with the Dock. As I understand, it will be oval in shape and feel much more robust, price is not set yet, (probably around $30). For their new Dock, which will be out around the same time, it will have a substantial aluminum remote for around $100 that has more functionality. It was not quite clear to me if it offers more functionality to my current dock, but it will work with it. Lastly, I learned that all their remotes are actually TEAC remotes, which may open the door to untapped functionality. Thanks for you response! Rpg

wadia itransport is a bitperfect transport with high levels of jitter.
with a dac capable of eliminating it the results are equal to a good cd.
but always the high levels of incoming jitter affects the sound quality in even the best dacs.
I have a nonos dac that is very sensitive to jitter and I am not happy with itransport. I can easily hear the difference between the wadia and my esoteric transport. I have order a m2tech hiface for a direct comparison.
Nikos

Perhaps the next generation of the Wadia dock will have improved performance in the area of jitter. One noteworthy comment I received from Wadia about this first generation Dock, is that though measured performance is important, the technician said their release criteria for the dock came after extensive listening sessions. I think in the world of high end products, a manufacturer caring not only about spec's but more so about the sound is admirable. Lastly, my DAC does a good job of re-clocking, and using the loss-less option when I import leaves me with sound quality very close if not equal to the source CD. Good luck and thank you.

One last thing worth mentioning about the transports sound quality. It can sound better than your source CD depending on it's condition. I have a well recorded artist but about half way through the disk I get an almost static like noise, the disk has always been this way. Importing the disk using the Apple Loss-Less with error checking selected resulted in the problem being eliminated when played back with the IPod and Dock. So, yes, in this case the IPod sounded better than the disk.