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In Reply to: Same DAC: CD transport vs. computer... posted by willkayakforfood on July 11, 2014 at 13:38:31:
Interesting results people get. I wish computer audio DAC designers would design DACs that actually worked properly with the "average" consumer laptop and take into account that 99% of the people will be using their current laptop (which does everything else like internet browsing, business, personal etc) and get their DACs to actually work properly without having to go to night school to become computer enigineers to get music to not sound like a rugby team after eating 7 kilograms of baked beans.
Manufacturers continually make a host of excuses as to why their DACs sound worse than transports. It's the output, it's the cable, it's the media player (funny for every one that says XYZ is a better media player than ABC - another will swear by ABC over XYZ).
Then it is which file FLAC is best - nope WAV is better - bla bla.
A Good Redbook DAC made cheap transports sound a lot better and they made good transports sound better still (not all DACs but...).
My advice to computer dac manufacturers is to come out with dedicated transports. Transports in this case I mean a dedicated laptop/PC that you put together and sell preloaded with the EXACT machine you want people to use for your DAC. So if you want a SSD drive with J-River and dBpoweramp and isolated sound card with XYZ USB to SPDIF converter and an oversized fan, Windows 7 instead of 8, GHI priocessor (AMD/Intel whatever and at the exact operating speed and cooling gel you need) no bloat ware etc etc then build the laptop/PC exactly to the parameters and specifications required to make your DAC sound good.
They charge $5k for DACs - you can charge $1500 for a specialized laptop/PC and call it the "Transport" and indeed, sell both as a "complete" package.
Serious gamers put together their machiens - so do the same as what xoticpc does. With them you buy a basic platform and you can custom build them - buy different screens, video cards, sound cards, ram, motherboards, cooling systems RAID options, choice of operating systems (or none) and basically build the thing from the ground up.
Audiophiles are music lovers - it doesn't follow that they're computer lovers. So design a plug and play system. Granted if DAC companies do this they have no one to blame if the sound is bad.
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