Some are essentially like a CDPlayer with some added functions, like this Musical Fidelity, which can be used as a transport since it has SPDIF output except instead of an optical disc transport (see #1 above) it has connectivity options to other storage devices/media. Then there are music servers now that use mass storage (like HDDs or flash memory) that can play music.
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More advanced devices can mimic the full-size/laptop computer - for example an iPad or a comparable Android tablet or even smartphone can be a digital transport too. Some products like this Wadia allowed for iPods to serve as a storage and media player, essentially if it was a full-size computer, that Wadia would be the upgraded soundcard. A desktop or notebook computer can be a transport when you use for example Foobar and send out a digital signal via USB or SPDIF if your soundcard has it (some laptops have a combo earphone-optical SPDIF output).
In more general terms nowadays, a transport is any device that can perform the same functions - 1) playing digital music (not necessarily off an optical disc) then 2) sending out a digital stream to a DAC. In the same sense, when you hook up a BluRay player to an HDMI1.3 and up receiver, it's only a transport since audio and video get sent to your surround processor/receiver, and the BluRay player just spins and reads the disc. When you get a traditional CDPlayer and use the digital output, you're essentially using it as a transport, regardless of the fact that it has a DAC circuit in it. It just spins and reads the disc then streams the data through its digital SPDIF output into a separate DAC like your Maverick D1. Traditionally, a dedicated CD transport like this Little Dot or this Wadia looks like a regular CDPlayer, but actually lacks the DAC circuit inside. 1) The mechanical system that spins and reads the disc in an optical disc playerĢ) Generally, any system that can read and play digital media then send out a digital stream to another device that will decode it, like the following:
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