How does a Transport effect sound?


hi guys,

Been wondering about this: How does a CD Transport effect sound?  Isn't it just reading the disc and sending the 1s and 0s to the DAC.  Shouldn't every transport sound the same?

Thanks! 
leemaze

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The ONLY thorough solution is to accept interface jitter as a fact of life and use a DAC that rejects it.

OP, substitute the word "re-clocks" in place of "rejects" and shadorne's statement is entirely true. 


Beside any philosophical issues, this breaks bit perfect playback and hence will break DSD playback, etc.

And, if I’m not mistaken, any delta-sigma only DAC will "break" bit perfect PCM playback.

So, is R2R the only way to get bit-perfect playback?

To my understanding, yes.

Firstly - always go for BNC. This is unequivocally a superior connector,

In comparison to what?

RCA obviously. It cannot be terminated properly to any coax.

Steve, your opinion (or fact) on this please....

As you know, in my case I’m going Oppo>Yggy via **RCA** coax out from Oppo and in to Yggy. Shame on me perhaps, but other than optical this is my only option. Or is it? :)

Question given the aforementioned....

Technically I could go RCA coax out from Oppo and terminate with BNC coax in to Yggy. So is RCA>BNC coax "better" than RCA>RCA coax? (same coax and all else equal)

Thanks.