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jessie.dazzle wrote:

In my case, the CD transport (which is no slouch) is soundly beaten. Apart from using it to make the occasional comparison, I have not touched the CD transport since unpacking the DAC.

Jessie, I see an inconsistency in what you say. You are pleased with your USB DAC driver from you DAW but you still load files to you music server from CDs, that mean that you still read then via some kind of transport, would it be DAW transport of external dedicated audio transport. Where I see the contradiction is in my view is that what we look at the performance of the transports we need to abstract ourselves from our takes on DACs. Feed the DAW’s transport and dedicated audio transport into the same DAC. Do you still feel that it is “soundly beaten”? 

Let me give you a test to discover for yours where the sound is been lost. Find a raw stream from any good A/D converter. You must not use DVD-A, SACD of any other souses – they are already ruined by media. You need a raw 16/44stream from A/D. Save it in 16/44 format and listen it from you music server. Then use any available fore you mean to put this file to CD and read it from any transport you have. No matter what you do you will have severely worsened sound, make a conclusion.

The point is that CD format itself, not even the 16/44 is a bitch. The same is with any other format. You might have a good 24/96 file but as soon you load it to DVD-A it turns to shit. A raw 1-bit at 2.8224 MHz DSD is very fine but ported to SACD disks is it loses a lot, not to mention that the whole DSD conversion saga is a fraudulent in a way. The transports of DAC is not a problem the media is the problem. So, the fact that you do not touch the CD transport since you did whatever says very little as you still are touching a CD transport each time you are uploading you CD to you DAW.

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