Will computer to DAC replace transports and cdp's?

Kublakhan, if you're still considering ugrading to a SOTA CD/SACD player, the APL Denon 3910 offers an optional coaxial digital input, so one can use the APL's custom DAC for hard drive based digital audio in addition to the shiny silver discs.

Just a thought.

Pardales, I agree, however it is still nice to be able to grab a disc and play straight out with decent transport and the point is that you can still hook up one rather cheap, with SACD or whatever and still have a dac with computer hooked all in one as long as you have the multiple inputs on the DAC, but yeah costly machines are going to get hurt very soon, not that they have not already, but 15000.00 Reimyo''s and Meitners owners are going to take a bath at some point.

Sound Quality Question :

Example, $950.00 and I get an Off-Ramp Turbo, get everything set up correctly to my Dac, will it sound "as good or better" than my belt-drive CEC ?

Better is what people are saying, though people are always saying one damn thing or another. The Empricial Audio website has some pretty explicit comparisons.

hey rx8man,
if you ever try this, please let us know what you think.