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In Reply to: Toshiba 3960 as Transport-and a surprise posted by kavakidd on May 5, 2005 at 07:38:47:
According to the folks at Benchmark. Or at least not the sample 3960 they tested on their scope. They were using a cheap Panasonic at the Show.
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Did Benchmark test any other units similarly? Did they publish their findings somewhere? Couldn't find anything about bit-perfect transports on their site.
There was a thread at head-fi where someone recorded the output of the Toshiba and found the same thing - not bit-perfect. This one *seemed* to be applying the de-emphasis curve (or maybe the emphasis curve - I'm not sure which way it goes). Since you should never apply the curve at the transport, this is odd to say the least (to say nothing of the fact that the CD didn't use emphasis).
Once again, this was a single-sample test, so who knows how widespread it is. I have one upstairs but it's for dvd only, and I haven't been motivated enough to check.
Not entirely sure what that means but - I am using it for simple copies of CD's which are not super critical. My primary interest is in copying vinyl to the Tascam - a whole "'nuther" issue.The Toshiba does, tho, sound better than taking an analog signal from my SACD-1000 and recording that. Way better, in fact. And the "buttons" make a very substantial contribution.
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