Transport for MHDT Havana

Elevick,

Quite simply because the transport matters quite a bit--probably equally to the DAC. I'd love it if a cheap dvd player's digital out were sufficient with a good enough DAC, but even those dacs that promise jitter reduction seem to benefit from a quality transport.

Elevick, Gopher answered your question quite well. Buying a DAC and sending a less than pristine digital signal to it is kind of like buying a sports car and getting generic tires from Sears... Yes, you can drive the car, and it might even be fun, but honestly you're only achieving a small portion of it's potential. Plus, call me old fashioned, but I have a lot of CD's and really don't want to put them all on a drive, besides, I like to be able to touch the physical media... That's one reason why I really love LP's.

I'll look into the CEC transports. Those were actually on my mind, but I forgot to mentioned them.

Audiojan,
You and Gopher are correct, a transport's quality is a major factor in the overall sound.Some have suggested that it is more important than the DAC.Don't know your budget but a used PS Audio PWT is musically excellent, the CEC is a good recommendation also.Computers are obviously an alternative, but some don't want to bother with this approach and setting it up.
Regards,

First time I could spend some serious time with the Havana and IMPRESSED doesn't even come close. First time digital is getting close to the analog purity that I so wanted. Live records sounds like.. live!

This thing definitely needs a dedicated transport... Using my Oppo BD95 right now but that's going back in the HT.

So, I've decided. It'll be a CEC TL1. I heard one of those years back and really liked how that sounded. Granted, it was with Thiel CS7.2, driven by some very large and expensive VTL's, but that sound was glorious. My experience with the Havana so far has really moved me much, much closer to that and once the CEC get's here, I really hope that is yet another step towards that.