Players, transports, DACs ??

The CD player comes with the build-in DAC while the CD transport only works on the digital signal pickup.

Good signal pickup is crucial to everything, because garbage in and garbage out. So it is important to have good reading device.

The DAC is mainly to convert the digital signal to analog signal, and somehow reduce the jitter (digital distortion).

Great sound sure requires both devices to work accurately.

good question. i had the same idea (i.e. cheap trasport/good dac) when i began shopping for my front end. i learned that basically, you're screwed with crappy stuff no matter where it is in the signal chain. a high-end dac will not compensate for a mediocre transport and vice-versa.

for a given price point, it's usually better to get a very good one-box player than less good(?) digital separates. also remember that separates will require another (digital) cable which can itself be a source of sound quality degradation (not to mention that they're often $$$$).

ok

so i should go with a single cd player that still got digi out and is of good quality...

so i'll be able to upgrade DAC if i want to..
and if not i'll still have a nice cd player:p
eheh

It's true that one shitty component breaks thecomplete line..
when i was younger i was always trying to get one kick ass component to match otherstuff ( in other domain thanaudio)
but it was always in vain..and there i understand that everything needs to be of top notch to get top quality output..

eheh seems like i have to rethink of that again!:p
and apply it!

thanks guys:)