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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: Conspiracy!Posted by item on: 11/2/2011
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 Romy the Cat wrote:

That is why what I refer to “transport” I refer to the very primary duty – to read an optical disk and the ability to create more advanced sound out of it. As a persons who am familiar with the best optical disk readers out there (something called “transport”) I am very interested to find a PC based transport that would deliver sound competitive to best conventional transports. So far I was not able to find any, despite to many assurances. I did not see your things and I do not know what you do, this is why I was asking.

If the HFi World made the claim that your DAT1 sounds better playing the same track than their reference Cyrus CD Transport then it mean one of the following:

1)    That you bought more advertising in HFi World then Cyrus
2)    The HFi World editor when he matched the performance of your “transports” to an idiocy of a specific reviewer did a good job.

It shell be the their choice: your DAT1 in fact might be better then this Cyrus CD Transport but what file your DAT1 played? It did not play optical driver in real time – you have no such an option - it played a file. So, how the file was ripped from disk and peace to HH for your DAT1 devise. What transport or CD-rom read the file, what software it was?

Rgs, Romy the Cat


If you want to spin a CD during playback, for nostalgic reasons, then a CD player is fine. The only reason to do so, however, is to extract stored data. Computers have better ways to do this that don't invoke all the mechanical headaches of an optical drive. Keeping the whole process in solid state is very fast, very clean and sounds very good.

Computers have many brilliant ways to ruin everything else from thereon in, which is why there is such a difference between a standard PC box and a Linn Klimax DS. If you've auditioned widely, you'll know that - despite losing the optical mech - most computers don't sound great compared with a CD transport. It's taken us a long time to surpass that benchmark, and be prepared to offer something for review.

The editor took something of a risk in passing this judgment because they are quite involved with Cyrus, whereas we have never taken any advertising in their publication. He simply called it as he heard it. We offer free trials for anyone to do the same.

The DAT1 will play audio CDs, from a spinning optical drive, in realtime - but why would anyone want to? Far better to conduct a controlled, null-checked, rip with EAC or dBpoweramp, and play precisely the same zeros-and-ones from local, DC-filtered solid state storage.

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