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USB DAC with conventional transport ???

Does anyone make a conventional CD transport that outputs an asynchronous digital signal via USB? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to use one of these excellent (and relatively inexpensive) USB DACs without a computer as the transport? If nobody makes such a CD transport, is there any reason that one could not be made if someone wanted to do so?
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audioengr
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This is round-about way to get the signal reclocked. Its not available as far as I know.

There are two better and cheaper scenerios:

1) use the clock in the transport and transmit I2S to the DAC. You can do this for instance with PWT to W4S DAC2.

2) add a reclocker to the transport by inserting in-line. Then you are using a good clock, maybe better than the transport. Still S/PDIF coax or Toslink output to the DAC.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio
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