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In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: When a transport is not a transport is a transport.Posted by oxric on: 11/1/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:


I do not know what you are trying to do, why do you need the Lynx card, why is need to be modified and what does it mean “powered individually”, the people looks like sell power supply and they push the notion of individual power but no one said that it is good for sound.  My biggest misunderstanding of this entire thread is that they and you talk about transport but I do not see any efforts on the Item Audio side to good make PC based transport. To talk about hard drive, sound card, and the rest DAW context does not require a lot of brain – buy a regular PC, put in good sound card and you have a well performing machine. The linear PS is controversial in my view and no one to the best of my knowledge makes PC-based universal transports. The PC-based universal transports is what I care and I do not care about their power supplies, even if they are beneficial.


The Lynx sound card is something I have used before and it works well enough for me to try and keep it! It obviates the need to waste money on a new sound card when this one can do the job just as well.

As for the power supply, I see some benefit to having the power supply requirement kept as low as possible and the supply itself placed in a separate case. This is what I was hoping to achieve myself in any case. So as far as I am concerned, it's good Item Audio offers this and you are of course welcome to think differently. I personally do not think they have anything of interest to offer you, and I am relieved this is so.

The company calls the unit a Transport and does explain how it would fit in within someone's playback. That should dispel any semantic ambiguity and inappropriateness. I believe the idea is that it takes over the function of a cd player as a transport in the context of a 'standard' system to be used with an external dac except that here you have access to an optical drive that can cope with other media than redbook, including high res material that's becoming more easily available nowadays. I think you simply missed out the part where it says that one can specify an optical drive of one's choice. As this would be in most cases a blu-ray drive, this does make it a universal transport...

Best regards
Rakesh

 

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