Logitech Transporter + Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2


Anyone using a Berkeley Audio Alpha DAC 2 with a Transporter?
I figure this would be a good upgrade and leaves a nice path to getting the Berkeley Audio USB sometime in the future.

Is the Transporter good enough as a transport?

Cheers

ET
evilteddie
I suppose it depends on what "good enough" means to you, or to what level of quality you are trying to reach...

I did not find the digi out on the TP to be that great once I got a DAC and began to use it... Quickly switched to a Bolder mod SB3 for a temporary solution and it was night and day! Way cleaner! The TP's digi out just sounded dirty. But maybe this software tweak will fix all of that.
I didn't like the Transporter as a transport to another DAC. I tried a couple DAC's with it, and the Transporter made them all sound like the analog outs of the Transporter. Mine was modded by Modwright when I had it at the time.
OK, so I found a large amount of information on this minimum phase ana Antipodal Filtering:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?69145-Antipodal-filtering

Will this work if I use the TP as a transport or is it a funciton of the DAC.
Please excuse my ignorance :)

ET
Yo2tup, mine too and I agree. Good for its time, or good for someone at its used level but not great for a transport for a diserving dac. But as stated before. It depends on your level. The MWTP is very good in its own right and at its level.
You can use the min-phase filter whether TP is used as a transport or transport+DAC.

In the case of using the TP as a transport with min-phase filter enabled, the sound of your DAC will be influced (I think positively, unless your DAC already has a min-phase filter) by the filter and parameter you set.

The headfi article is a little old. I have since modified the sox function to adjust the DAC sound to my taste. Right now I have touch (with boulder PS) running the min-phase filter into Cary exciter and the combo sounds wonderful in my secondary system.

I am no longer using transporter for much of anything since I acquired Linn Klimax.