Does it matter much which player I choose for use as cd transport to my dac?
Yes you can - but again what kind of sound quality you will get depends on your downstream equipment.
Transports do affect sound quality and quite massively if the rest of the chain is resolving enough.
but the problem is you have other people saying it makes no audible difference?
What music do you listen to by the way?
Transport wont make difference but DAC will........
Psychology acts both ways. What makes someone so sure that if they believe there isn't a difference, they will still hear it?However, if you want to believe there is a difference, then you will hear it right away.
Transports made a BIG difference as many of the issues with digital audio arise at this point. This has been pointed out by other experienced FMs too.
Yesterday we listened to a system through my Oppo-93 as it was the only portable CD player available to take to another FMs house and I must say I was pleasantly surprised at how good a stand-alone player it is.
And for people claiming that transport does not make a difference, I would like to know how many of them have compared a run of the mill transport with a quality one using a similarly high quality analog chain.
Which one make sense? Its just the digital data and getting transferred through a cable. People are trying to find differences when there is actually none.Psychology acts both ways. What makes someone so sure that if they believe there isn't a difference, they will still hear it?
Which one make sense? Its just the digital data and getting transferred through a cable. People are trying to find differences when there is actually none.
Well, it is lot more than that even before it is getting transferred through cable. The bits extracted from the CD by the CD transport are not error free by any means. Bits do get lost everywhere while reading, in the signal path etc.
We hear differences only if our systems allow us to hear. Unlike hi-end cables, interconnects, for a CD transport I think a decent system can show the difference easily.