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There was an Ypsilon thread where I found out about their transport and DAC. Two very nice pieces at about 26K and 30K respectively. Oddly what they call their transport actually has analog outs too. Upon reading I found out the following. The info in quotes is direct from their site:



""We strongly recommend the use of the 5-pin analog output [of our CDT -100 transport] with our DAC-100 for optimum performance. It is our belief that transmitting audio in the digital domain (SPDIF),even discrete such as I2S format, has its imperfections and adds a certain character to the sound. The frequency of bit clock and data bit is too high for transferring the signal in a transparent way.""

AND

"When the (5 pin) input [on our DAC-100] is used from the 5 pin out on the CDT-100 Transport the digital part of the DAC is disabled and is powered off. Only the analog section is used. With CDT-100 we strongly recommend the use of this input for optimum performance.""


So very oddly we have what is called a transport also has analog outs and a DAC where it is recdommended the analog out of their transport is used and the digital part of the DAC is turned off and bypassed when connected to their mating transport via their 5 pin [Neutrik] connector. It doesn't get weirder than that. I'd love to hear it.


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Topic - This is quite odd - Awe-d-o-file 17:47:18 10/20/14 ( 9)