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People buying Transports again?

I have a friend who is looking to purchase some dCS equipment. He is set on getting the entire dCS stack. Not sure if it is the Vivaldi or Pagnini. Although he has converted his library to digital (Meridian Sooloos) he believes he gets the best sound via a Transport. Now I know this is very subjective on does it sound better and if so what is the price of it. Like him I have converted all of my music over to digital. I converted it mostly for convenience and access to my entire collection. I have downloaded some HiRez files but I have no desire to repurchase my music in HiRez format if it becomes available. To me converting from disc to digital files was like going from non-remote control preamps to preamps with remotes. I personally would not buy a non-remote controlled preamp but that is just me. Are people going back or staying with transports?
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jazzonthehudson
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Second that Knghifi. It makes sense to upgrade the music streaming devices and accessories that some still treat as computer rather than upstream music devices.

As the the practical tips,
- an internal HDD is nice but a mid level NAS (e.g. Synology) can serve well audio and video files for the HTPC.
- Cat 6 cables should be a big improvement over standard Cat 5 (at least cat 5e should be used, shielding is imperative)
- Inserting those very affordable network bridges if the cable run is long (>50 feet) or even for shorter runs as they refresh the signal
most of the improvements are suggested by Klaus http://soundcheck-audio.blogspot.com/ based on his findings to improve the SB Touch

I am keeping my Cary CD just as back up.
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jazzonthehudson
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>>Ethernet is all about the data packets and making sure they get to where they are destined.

Yes for TCP/IP (or Token Ring or whatever transport protocol) they work as lost packets gets indeed re-transmitted and data packets are re-assembled but for hi fi audio where noise is a big culprit, causing jitter on the DAC/preamp side, you dont want RFI induced garbage.

If you dont believe all this and I am not telling you to, let me ask you? Why does (a digital) USB cable affect the sound then?

Here again there seems to be a discussion starting that reminded me of discussions on fuses and, to a lesser extend, on cables. Why dont we all experiment more?

If you dont hear a difference, then there is no difference for you,
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