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SME 20/3 --- tonearm recommendations!?
A late response here, but I’ll give you my experience. I’ve owned and used a variety of Koetsu cartridges and used them with SME IV.Vi and now SME V tonearms. Black, Rosewood Signature, Urushi Blue, Rosewood Signature Platinum and now Onyx Platin... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
Cerrot,I hear you but in my case it is clearly better.This is not something I would have believed possible from digital.Have you tried using USB with JRMC rather than the Touch?This is where I think the gains will be made.Everyone I've talked to, ... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
I don't have another transport to test with, sorry.BUT, PureMusic will do the same software upsampling to using minimum phase filtering and you get an arguably superior transport to the TP.It will play 24/192 native whereas the TP is stuck at 24/9... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
So is the Berkeley Audio DAC Series 2 a better DAC than the internal TP DAC?I got mine tonight.You better believe it is!Shockingly good.People say it sounds like vinyl.I think it sounds better.Well, better than my analog rig and it cost me $20K 10... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
OK, I also found that the Berkeley DAC 2 has this feature:Unequalled interpolation technology up-samples 44.1kHz CD’s to provide almost 176.4kHz quality and produces superb fidelity at all sampling rates from 32kHz to 192kHz.Maybe the TP will be f... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
So here's another twist...How about using an Empirical Audio Pace Car between the TP and DAC?http://www.empiricalaudio.com/products/pace-car-reclockeror should I just ditch the TP and go the USB route with a Berkeley USB or Empirical Off Ramp 5?Ch... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
OK, so I found a large amount of information on this minimum phase ana Antipodal Filtering:http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?69145-Antipodal-filtering Will this work if I use the TP as a transport or is it a funciton of the DAC.Please e... 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
BTW, where do I find convert.conf on a Mac?I have 7.7.2 installed on a Mac but I don't seem to be able to locate this file.ThanksET 
Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2
Chesebert,This sounds interesting.Where do I get the latest version of SOX?I found your article here:http://www.head-fi.org/t/549645/minimum-phase-filter-for-slimdevices-sb3-touch-transporter-etcAre the instructions still the same to turn this fil...