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Transports and Dac's mix and match Brands

I have a Questions with regards to transports and Dac's, most manufactures produce both the Transport and Dac, can you mix and match one and enother(brands)i.e Esoteric, EMM labs, Wadia and DSC come to mind, Iam am using a Dodson Audio Dac model Da-217 mk 11d at the moment and I wont a decent transport to use with it, I dont wont to be tied to one brand, as a example I like the Esoteric P05 there new pick up reads well, I not interested in SACD just red book, but can I use it with my Dac or other Dac's, if I decide to change in the future and will it preform as good if it was mated with other manufactures Dac, when you read the reviews or there owner manuals it seems they are designed to pacificaly be sold together, transport and dac, is this the case i.e P05 and D05.
Thanks for the insite or any recomendating on what I should be looking for.
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unclejeff
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I mix with no worry. You will find that, for instance, some DACs will sound better when they are in a CD player and you are playing CDs as opposed to feeding it from an external source. The system was built as a Cd player first and alternative inputs as a bit of an afterthought.

However a true DAC that was designed first for external inputs should work quite well.

An example would be that my Audio Aero CD player sounds 'best' with CDs and still sounds really good with external feeds into the DAC...my Anthem D2 sounds equally well with any input.
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