Phil Leigh;577248 Wrote: > yeah so the Touch would have an effective SNR of 102dB (approx)? whereas > the TP would have 120dB - is that about right? > > to put that into perspective... you'd have to have your amp on full and > ear rammed to the tweeter to hear it (or rather, not hear it) :-)
This is actually very interesting, but is resolution the same as snr or dynamic range? Also, what point is there in playing 24 bit files as opposed to 16 bit files. I only pose this question because it seems to me to be a little odd to value 24 bit files as a new standard whilst dismissing a 3 bit difference in DAC resolution as irrelevant. GENERALLY I should say that I think the touch is a fabulous device, and do not think for a moment that its analogue out performance could rationally be expected to be better for the price. There have been a lot of discussions on this forum about a) the relative performance of the transporter and touch and b) what can be done to make the touch even better: I wondered whether the stereophile measurements (which can be compared with those for the transporter) might inform that discussion. If the stereophile measurement tell us nothing about the quality of the digital out, then what measurement would? Might that measurement be used as a tool not necessarily to determine but possible to refine discussions about whether certain modifications ( outboard flac decoding / different psus/ clock upgrades) are beneficial? -- adamdea ------------------------------------------------------------------------ adamdea's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37603 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=82050 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
