As far as quality goes your in the grey area. The Transporter has slightly better jitter which (in my opinion) is the only thing that will effect the quality. But the Meridian DSP Speakers and Processors should factor that out. But if the Processor did the job perfectly (dejitter) I don't see why Meridian would sell $12,000 CD players and folks buy them :-). Neither SB or TP will drop bits on you.

For $1200 and if you have the bucks I'd get the Transporter. They both hold their value pretty good if you change your mind.

I think TP can be used as a standalone DAC.

If you use the Analog outputs (I think) you can setup the TP to do only analog volume.

Keep in mind that a big piece of what you are paying for is the DAC in the TP. A lot of folks wished they would release a DAC-less version of the TP.

The Display is nicer on the TP.

Last edited by George Mills; 2007-12-03 18:12.
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