Originally Posted by LeonvB
No, it wasn't available for a long time in this country so I went for a Stello DA220MKII. But I have the Duet running to my Stello for a few weeks now. It's an excellent combination: it has all the advantages of the TP (network, balanced, etc.), plus the nice remote of the Duet. Only disadvantage is that you have to buy a coax cable.
Please bear in mind the TP's main point of focus seems to be jitter. So while it's an excellent transport and a DAC with high specifications, many are disappointed by the music coming out of the DAC part. The good part of that is that there are many mods that are developed, and there's plenty of room inside the box to place them there. On the other hand it means sinking even more money into it.
So IMO the transporter is meant for just what it's name says: the transport part of an extremely high end setup.
My alac music tracks are stored on my pc hard disk, my pc is connected to a squeezebox duet through ethernet. So to bypass the Duet's dac, I should connect the Stello dac with the Duet through the optical in/out or coax. Right?