Back to audio. Yes you can use it as a transport. It's a much better transport than the Panasonic A7, JVC723GD, and Sony 300. My 22 year old son and I could barely tell the difference between using the digital outs to my Rotel 985 ($2000) or using the 9000ES DAC and going analog into the Rotel. In other words, the Sony DAC is very good and you will need to spend some dough to better it. I've read of other who were pleased with external DAC and the 9000ES. Personally, if you get an internal DAC, get one with upsampling--like the MSB line. I've not read about anyone's experience with the MSB however.
Soney 9000ES as a transport
I've ordered my Sony 9000ES "MIB" (Men in Black) and wanted to know if anyone has used this as a CD transport. If so with which DAC? I figured that I would try the SACD stuff, get a great DVD player, and possibly a decent CD transport to use with my MSB Linc Dac II or may get a Muse 2/96 dac.
Thanks.
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