I recently had a chance to speak with a factory technician for a "high end" company who assured me that there is a difference in brands of transports. We were discussing using digital outs of disc players and preamp DAC's vs stand alone players and DAC's. He says the difference is in how much jitter is caused when the information is read from the disc. Better transports will have less jitter and less of a problem to be corrected. He felt I would get better sound from my Krell transport than my Denon into the same DAC. Some day I will get energetic and see.

Those who use mega disc changers and feed the signal into an outboard DAC seem to be satisfied yet it sounds like better sonics could be had. Has any of you ever compared a single disc digital out to the jukebox? I would think the jukebox would be the worst possible transport.