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In Reply to: RE: Is belt drive really worth the extra $$$ ? posted by hahax@verizon.net on January 11, 2015 at 20:22:32
Both- excellent design and an excellent transport. A transport is only as good as the DAC connected to it.
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that wasn't my point. I assume it's well designed or it wouldn't get good reviews. I only questioned if belt drive was worth it or even made it more difficult to get good performance since, unlike a turn table, the rotation of a CD is not constant like a turn table but slowing as the CD plays. In a turntable the RPM is constant but the linear speed drops. Foe a CD the linear tracking speed is constant but the RPMs constantly slow.
I am not all that great with digital knowledge but your statement
"A transport is only as good as the DAC connected to it." is totally false.
A great DAC(whatever you consider that to be) will definitely not be up to it fullest potential without a really good transport whereas a really good transport could operate to its fullest potential no matter what DAC is connected to it. It just won't sound as good because the DAC will then not be there to its fullest. A bad or weak transport will affect a DAC but a DAC won't affect the transport. It will affect the sound.
I wonder if the original Memory Player doesn't significantly affect the importance of the transport since it downloads everything to solid state memory and then plays from there.
I have no idea what that is. I am not into digital at all. I like analogue better.
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