Sony SCD1 vs. Mark Lev 37 as transports

... great post Mgottlieb. I agree that the DAC market will be agitated for a while with more high end offerings and also that the Sony is a decent $4K transport for Redbook. Glad to see you've A/B'd it against other top transport(s) and seem to also conclude that balanced on the SCD-1 is not superior to RCA (if I read you right) given equal high end cables. Please let us know how the new DCS sounds with the Sony front end.

To clarify, I tried both balanced and single-ended versions of the same cable on the Levinson, to make sure I wasn't attributing what were actually cable diferences to the transports. The Sony only takes RCAs.

Oops, sorry--the Sony's digital out only takes an RCA digital cable.