Hi all, I bought a ProJect RS2T for my Border Patrol Dac. Never had anything else to compare, as I'm more into analog and just wanted a good transport under 2.500 eur (I live in Poland) without visiting 20 dealers and here for 2.000 eur you can get a ProJect. But I tell you something, I used to have also the ProJect power supply, the RS BOX UNI 1 Way and later I sold it for very decent money. Then I decided to plug a new power cord into the Dac. I had for one year a Cardas Parsec, when I ordered from Pete a Triode Wire Labs' High Power Digital American power cord. It was night and day. I have no longer the power supply so I'm using the stock one, but anyway the sound it's much better than before, just with the new power cord. Like listening to a different Dac or amplifier. Same with analog system, when I plug Pete's power cord into my Leben CS300F the sound becomes dramatically better, more structured highs and bass, more depth, more details, voices much more present and "human". So for my personal experience cables do make a different, in the case of this power cord a terrific difference. And that's what I suggest to get the full potential from your equipment.
If the DAC is the same, how different do CD transports sound?
One interesting topic of discussion here is how audible the differences are between CD players when they are used as transports only — or when they are only transports to begin with.
In other words, in a comparison which keeps the DAC the same, how much difference can be heard between CD transports?
This recent video by Harley Lovegrove of Pearl Acoustics provides one test of this question. It may not be the ultimate test, but he does describe the experimental conditions and informations about the qualifications of the listeners.
He comes to the main conclusion here: https://youtu.be/TAOLGsS27R0?t=1079
The whole video is worth watching, I think.
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knock1Well, if you followed the thread from the beginning, you probably noticed that A LOT was going on regarding opinions on cables. The sense of my reply is: you can change cd transport and have different sounds for the same Dac, for sure, but even with a 3.000$ cd transport, plus related power supplies, and a poor power cord plugged into the Dac you will still loose a lot of potential. I personally think this is a very useful personal experience to share with others. To get the full potential from a decent Dac I would first think of a good power cord than exotic cd transports. |